Janis Joplin Episode 0: Season 3 Official Trailer

Listen to Season 3 of the 27 Club to hear the insane details behind the life of one of rock's greatest icons — Janis Joplin. From her roots as a bullied and ostracized teenager to her stunning rise to international superstardom, the story of Janis Joplin’s short life still resonates today, more than 50 years after her death. You'll hear about her wild adventures from Texas to San Francisco and beyond, her involvement with the Hell's Angels, fellow 27 Club members Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and her surveillance by the FBI. Jake Brennan, the creator and host of the award-winning Disgraceland podcast, brings you an all new season of the 27 Club that is not to be missed. The 27 Club season 3 launches on Thursday April 22, 2021.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A composer slowly killed by the smell of burnt rubber.
A blue singer busted by narks in a back alley
in San Antonio, A train filled with rock stars barreling
across the Canadian prairie. A helicopter touching down, unannounced and uninvited,
on the front yard of a country music megastar. Would

(00:23):
all these things have in common Janice Joplin, from her
roots as a bullied and ostracized teenager who her stunning
rise to international superstardom. The story of Janice Joplin's short
life still resonates today, more than fifty years after her death,
because the story of Janice Joplin is not just her story.

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It's the story of San Francisco, the summer of love
in a turbulent decade in American history. It's the story
of the Hell's Angels, from brotherly protectors to backstabbing enemies.
It's the story of acid and beer and weed found
on the side of the highway in Nebraska. And also
the story of the harder stuff, the stuff that you
have to run far away from, all the way to

(01:06):
Rio de Janeiro in order to escape. It's the story
of a feminist icon whose message of empowerment was so
subversive that the FBI opened a file on her. And
it's the story of a rock and roll singer, the
rock and roll singer of the nineteen sixties, the one
who crystallized the psychedelic blue sound, who became a leegend
for her incendiary performances. And it's a story that ends

(01:28):
suddenly at the age of twenty seven. The twenty seven
Club is back. The seven Club, a serialized podcast about
iconic rock stars who died at the age of twenty seven,
returns with the story of Janice Joplin on Thursday, April
two thousand, twenty one. The twenty seven Club is hosted

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by me Jake Brennan, the creator of disgrace Land, the
award winning music and true crime podcast. Each season of
The twenty seven Club focuses on one immortal artist who
became a member of music's most infamous club by dying,
sometimes mysteriously, at the age of seven. Season one featured
twelve episodes on Jimmie Hendricks in season two told the

(02:11):
story of Jim Morrison. Both seasons are available for you
to binge in their entirety right now and starting on
April two. We'll tell you the story of rock and
Roll's greatest error from the perspective of the woman who,
in many ways to find it, Janis Joplin. The twenty
seven Club is a weekly show. Episodes are released every Thursday.
Like this Graceland, this is an adult storytelling podcast. It

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is not for children. The twenty seven Club returns with
season three on April twenty one, and is produced by
Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio. Find and
follow The twenty seven Club on the I Heart Radio app,
Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come join
the Club.