Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue

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Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue

Season 30 Episode 6 | 102m 36s | CC

The broadcast features Amy Berg's never-before-seen extended film cut with additional archival performance footage and new interviews with Janice Joplin’s sister Laura Joplin and musicians influenced by Janis: Alecia Moore (a.k.a. Pink), Juliette Lewis, Melissa Etheridge and the film’s narrator, Chan Marshall, who is best known as indie rock star Cat Power.

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