Revolutionary blues maven Janis Joplin achieved rock icon status when the Rock Hall honored her in 1995 - her first year of eligibility. Melissa Etheridge, an outsider and activist in her own right, pays tribute to the woman she deems “the only goddess in a sea of rock gods.”

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