"I have my madness, I live in another dimension, and I do not have time for things that have no soul." - Charles Bukowski

Monday, August 8, 2016

This Day in Music History - August 8th

1970, Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith at the Mont Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia. Blues singer Smith died in 1937 after being refused admission to a whites only hospital.

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