> Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>
>> 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."
>>
> 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?
Maybe, maybe not. You figure she might still be alive?
John A