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>Yep, Joplin was Texas-born for sure. And as I recall, she hated the
>place. She once said, "I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't
>treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a
>beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
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That's a fact. But do you think she would have been able to sing "Ball
and Chain" if she had been born in Santa Cruz?
Joanna