Reply #25: I took Landau's paragraph to be pro-Janis -- sort of a [View All]

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way of saying that she was a woman from Port Arthur, Texas, with the same kinds of fears and self-doubts as the people who paid money to hear her, but that in her case, she had this amazing talent -- her voice.

And my god that voice. One reviewer described it as a psychic talon rising from somewhere deep down in the back of her throat, reaching over the audience to hook into their flesh.

I have never heard another voice like that, male or female, in any genre. Janis was the one-of-a-kind vocalist.