Port Arthur, Tx is a shithole. I don't mind saying it. It's smelly, ugly, hot, humid, mosquito-ridden and just down-right boring. Ask my brother, Steve. He lived there for a year and it almost killed him. They say that the greatest blues music comes from sorrow and heartache. Maybe that's why the late Janis Joplin's music is so intense and passionate, it tears a hole in your heart. I hope this rendition of her, captures that free, yet tormented spirit of hers.