Janis Joplin (third part)

Kozmic Blues Band
Together, they began to search the best musicians of the country for creating a new group. At the begining of 1969 they were already creating, althought the musicians changed along the year. She brought with her to the guitarrist Sam Andrew of The Big Brother and the Holding Company. With her new band, "Kozmic Blues Band", markered her second album, I got Dem Ol'Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, which sounded diferent what her listeners was habituated: It was a mix of rock, soul and blues, and recibed bad reviews, the Rolling Stone Magazzine named her "The Judy Garland of the Rock"

In april; Janis and the Kozmic Blues Band wen to an European Tour, they ran thougth Frankfurt, Stockholm, Paris, London, and some places more, where the audience received very warmly and she came back to U.S.A. very happy, saying that The best concert that She had made once in her lifetime was in London, where the audience went crazy.

In that year, because of press, She hooked to heroin and begun lavishing in interviews, wich She ended speaking about her life and her feelings. She said that " She made the love with 25.000 people on the stage and after she came back at home alone". S he depended more and more of the alcohol and heroin but she had become a force and revolt symbol to many women at that moment.

On 16th Agustus 1969 acted in an enormous succes at the Woodstock Festival, where she made two performances of "Ball And Chain" and "Piece of my heart".

But the band musiciens was just professionals, and Janis wanted to her band was like a family, as Big Brother, and the only who ended up conecting was Cornelios "Snooky" Flowers the saxophonist. At the end of 1969 Janis was destroyed and too hooked to heroin and alcohol, then She decided to take a break and leave the band. At the end of 1969 the band separated. Their last concert was at the Madison Square garden in New York in the night on 19th and 20th December 1969.

In february 1970, She went ,with a friend, to The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, to detox ,at least, of heroin. Once there, she met David Niehouse and they fell in love. They was some moths traveling through the brazilian jungle as two old beatniks on the road. And to get back to San Francisco, David moved to Jani's house.