The guitar playing on Cheap Thrills was like nothing before it. A true innovator.
Guitarist for Janis Joplin's Big Brother band dies
James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock's multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69.