Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Janis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGee (Audio) () A Secretary’s Name Helped Inspire Kris Kristofferson to Write ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ĭuring the interview with the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum, Kris Kristofferson said it was Fred Foster who came up with the title “Me and Bobby McGee.”įoster then said he came up with the title thanks to a conversation with a secretary. But, in that one, I can hear her saying, ‘Wait until this son of a b**** hears this. “I love it because of the passion and heart and soul that she put into everything she did. So much love and emotion going into the song and knowing that she wasn’t there to enjoy that. And, uh, he played it for me and I had to leave the room. “But, I remember the producer, he asked me to come by his office the next day. “Unfortunately, the first time I heard Janis’s recording of ‘Bobby McGee’ was when I had just gone down because she had died,” Kristofferson recalled. “I spent about a month up there in her house living … she was quite different from anything I’d experienced before.”Īfter Joplin died, Kristofferson had the chance to hear her version of his song. “We hit it off,” Kris Kristofferson said of his relationship with Joplin. And, she would later go on to record “Me and Bobby McGee.” Neuwirth would introduce Kristofferson to Janis Joplin. Kristofferson would later learn that Bob Neuwirth – the road manager for Bob Dylan at the time – taught the song to Janis Joplin. Bob Dylan’s Road Manager Taught ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ to Janis Joplin Janis Joplin: Days & Summers – Scrapbook 1966-68 will be published June 10th and is available to preorder at .“I had no idea how she knew it,” Kristofferson said during the interview. Written by the people who really knew Janis and those inspired by her, the book’s in-depth text provides a fascinating, new account of the singer’s extraordinary life. Featured alongside are previously unpublished items from her personal archive, including letters she wrote home to her family and a preceding scrapbook from her senior high school years, 1956-59. Throughout it all, she collected posters, souvenirs, press clippings, photographs and records, and annotated them with her comments. During her career, Janis Joplin created a personal record of her meteoric rise to fame and the flowering of Sixties counterculture. Some of the images in the “Me and Bobby McGee” short film may be seen in the upcoming limited edition book, Janis Joplin: Days & Summers – Scrapbook 1966-68, recently announced by Genesis Publications and the Janis Joplin Estate. Serna and Sánchez recently created the official music video for “Bob Marley & The Wailers – Jammin (Tropkillaz Remix)” featuring Tiwa Savage. Originally released on January 11, 1971–three months after Joplin’s passing on October 4, 1970, and eight days before what would have been her 28th birthday on January 19th – Pearl debuted Joplin’s last completed studio recordings as well as intimations of what the influential American country-soul-blues-rock singer was capable of delivering.Ĭolombian director-designer Sara Serna developed a multi-dimensional perspective and mixed media approach to her cinematic interpretation of “Me and Bobby McGee.” Serna worked with her frequent collaborator, Chilean art director Jko Sánchez, to create an immersive animated short film incorporating narrative, representational, abstract and biographic elements illustrating the song through handmade collage, cutouts and digital compositing.
The new “Me and Bobby McGee” official video is part of an ongoing celebration and appreciation of Joplin and her music surrounding the 50th anniversary of Pearl, the artist’s final studio album.
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