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Janis Joplin feat. Jorma Kaukonen Lyrics

@buckjohnson1119

Rasputin's Liver when she was having drug problems, it was not that beautiful face here. One thing I have noticed, with her incredible talent, it seems she never sings a song on a different range. I wish I could have heard her bring down her volume, with more arrangements. I need Eclectic music. The same thing becomes monotonous for me. With that being said, She was highly talented. Just wish the dmn drugs hadn’t taken her.

@tedpeterson1156

Rasputin's Liver She looks totally tappable with her geetar there

@garykemp7137

no makeup etc... she was lovely of course.

@radioman6489

She was great looking until the drugs kicked in with the cigs and boozzzzzeeee

@Bear78420

This is the earliest recording of hers I’ve ever heard. Truly a treasure ❤️❤️❤️

@ghostrider-ek8gu

There was only ONE Janis Joplin. You sang from life, from love and from your heart. You are missed, totally missed.

@IIJOSEPHXII

Why do you say there was only one? Have people you spoke to said there were more?

@SculptExpress-gv8jp

She was a storyteller too! Love her ❤️

@cathyolinger9721

This is priceless. She was phenomenal. No other like her. This music is raw and gritty with amazing talent. All of which is Janis.

@surfinwax58

And no slouch on the guitar either. Imagine her with a Les Paul or Fender electric guitar?!

@loudfast1261

Truly, this belongs in the Congressional Library's collection of Americana recordings it's that good. She truly was such a treasure, wish she'd made it further but man what a light.

@SculptExpress-gv8jp

True, but do you hear people playing any of her songs anymore? I wish to hear people playing guitar and those songs around the public areas; but, it would be probably against “zoning regulations!”’ And yet it would be so beautiful. It would reduce frustration and aggression in people. All we need is art and great music. And not confined only to expensive venues.

@TheBings

Not only could Janis belt out a song like no white woman before her, she also had perfect pitch.

@batDOG.RECORDS

This is a pivotal moment in not only her career but for the whole scene at that time in general. Amazing find, she is like Robert Johnson belting stomping and romping. She got strung out sent back to Texas, was offered a gig with Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators but decided she’d give SF another shot, linked with Big Brother and the Dead and drove a culture to the head of the seventies based in that rhythm and blues and pure soul. Janis Joplin deserves monuments and shrines. Wild Child, love sick in reckless abandon, it’s lonely at the top but the view is about perspective. With Janis she was a lonely heart and just wanted to be loved, “and isn’t that all what any one wants man?”

@diogene3913

This girl was a power! The sound of the tape is clean, you hear clear for being 58 years old.

@tootz1950

I swear to god she sounds like the old Black blues singers recorded in the 30's.

@ModernFactsDaily

tootz1950 thats who she is imitating so yes. Good imitation

@LUCKYB.

Where you think she got it

@toobmaniac

Those old recordings were played back at the wrong speed making them faster and higher in pitch .. So she's imitating the character of records played too fast

@ModernFactsDaily

toob maniac def intriguing thanks!!

@melindalemmon2149

And 20s

@TheAto2000

i can't believe someone recorded those early years of Janis Joplin in California .God bless you, and thank you for posting this .

@lauriedooker1031

Yeh same brother, I wonder though if her early fans followed her career into the electric rock years.?

@reneask79

Janis Joplin and Sandy Denny
- greatest singers ever

@merklingassoc

I agree. This is just so awesome to hear. Especially in my home city.

@merklingassoc

Before the hippies, San Francisco had the beatniks. Don't forget England music invasion had already hit our radios. San Francisco already had a huge music seen going on, especially in North Beach. This is still too early for me, I'd have been 8 yrs old. But, by 12 I was already deep in the S. F. music seen. This the year of JFK's assassination. Really remember that time. 😢

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎶🎸❤ ty

@user-lb8do4ew6k

Sad that she would be gone in seven years, incredible natural talent.

"All I know is something like a bird within her sang
All I know she sang a little while & then flew on"

@sylviaross5486

The Dead!!! Here's a great live version of "The Bird Song (for Janice)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJS-kxBnHRc

@floepiejane

❤️ (~);-} ❤️

@deanmary1969

She sang these songs at Kenneth Threadgills has station and Tavern on North Lamar in Austin we were in jr. High school and my friends family owned a home across the street sit on a brick wall after they closed and lock the door and jam sessions some till daylight...ol man way down in TX..

@g-girl9867

What a joy it is to find this sweet bad ass gal singing with full blues voice proper.

@StephenS-2024

Exactly what I love about YouTube.

@w5winston

My line is: "This is why the internet was invented."

@shirleymuhleisen683

This keeps great performances current-maybe autotune, overdubbing and CGI will go to trash and artists will demand return to these basics- talent is not gone. Producers are just impatient. Nothing beats REAL😎🕺

@StephenS-2024

@@shirleymuhleisen683 well said. If you like flaws, check out my music. Hehe

@e.grieves2905

Postor child for all those who felt like they were on the outside looking in growing up. The world really misses you Janice.

@dunruden9720

poster, Janis.

@reblahuty63

i am very shy. i stutter. i couldn't get up and sing like that at all. but i used to date a red headed woman and i never ever realized how much she looked like janis until we broke up. this is a very kool recording. i love that old folk/blues acoustic thing.

@MrTantalust

@@reblahuty63 The next time you're alone somewhere, pick up any new printed matter and read it loudly, Quickly & LOUDLY. No stuttering when I do this!. Works for me.

@suryclind

😔

Spell check...Janis, poster

@colibri1

She really has a 1920s-style blues voice more than a rock voice. It's great.

@floepiejane

Projecting in a full coffee house.

@micaelamontes73

Agreed!

@mirjanahansen8835

Ja hon låter precis som Bessie Smith

@sylviaross5486

What a set of lungs!!! Being a singer myself, she's one of my idols. She was taken from us when I was 10 & she was 27 - waaaaay too soon. Miss you, Janice. Thanks so much for posting this gem from the past.

@moonbeamskies3346

Wow, it is amazing to hear Janis in this era before the hippie and drug culture. Her singing was already wild and aggressive. This is where heavy rock was in 1963.

@ChrisSmith88love

Checked her monitor speaker for her, New Years Day. The next day I was in the Marine Corps having my long hair shaved. But I did have 1 word with Janis - and I’m still flying. You know that word was “YES!” And She was drinking Southern Comfort out of a 1/2 gal bottle without a glass. My Angel.

@cameronstewart729

The real sadness here is there was no video of this whole set for us to see the excitement in her face singing.

@raymondparsley7442

Janis was something different... Sure wish she was still with us.

@lethalinjectionsquad86

"Come Back Baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaeqDECG3KI

@hestonjack7091

Super talent she was, rest in peace dear one

@michaelhanlon6118

Real talented, see hit all the notes in pitch!! I think she was very sexy

@eagarde

she was 20 years old in 1963 .....so she would be 80?

@blueclarity

She is still with us...

@truthkilla1269

Can you imagine being alive at this time

@sunshinebannister1050

Thank you for this (more valuable than gold), music from our Janis❣️👏👍✌️I love you Janis and know you are still singing where ever you are and send you all my love, sweet spirit of love❣️You are amazing, RIP❣️🎤🎶🎸

@IHScoutII

That voice .....so much to it, she left the world wanting more.

@Cefdfsacq

A hurricane of talent.

@bootreese1

I was 8 in 63. It would be another 4 years before I ever heard of Janice Joplin.

@vincentvelazquez6001

Janis for ever! The best female singer in rock and blues music.RIP Janis.A french fan.

@fredsottile8612

Why why why do the French always have to state that they are french? Geeez.

@gerhardschelbi2302

Merci muchacho velascuez!

@Deliquescentinsight

This is an obscure gem, I am amazed how some people have access to incredible media-so valuable!

@AJwasRight

Same here old man. Its astonishing

@davidholiday4494

I know what you mean - her voice was absolutely amazing at this time. So clear and strong.

@bobsolley8818

Janis Joplin, one of the greatest. Gone too soon.

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎸🎶❤💐💐💐

@ryban1001

What a great recording for 1963.

@chrisrutherford9216

Oddly free of hiss &other tape noise. Someone spent some time cleaning this up. Unless it's a state of the art (for 1963) recording. Unlikely to have been running in a coffee house inSF.

@empacae

Flames that burn twice as bright burn out twice as quick. You were a bright flame Janis, and we still feel your heat.

@SitarZan

Talk about luck and young love. I met Janice Joplin in 1968 while I was in 9th grade - age 15. We met at the Memphis Mid South Coliseum about an hour before the doors officially opened for ticket holders to enter the arena. She was the opening music act (obviously mis-billed) for an all black southern radio station's annually sponsored event called The WDIA Goodwill Review (AM Radio). I was a hired usher for the event & she walked right up to me friendly as can be. We spoke about 10 or 15 minutes then she gave me an autograph which, because of young love, I immediately passed it on to my girlfriend at the time. :/

Neither Janice nor her band, Big Brother & The Holding Company received anything close to a welcome reception as most audience members were expecting tunes by famous or upcoming black artists/bands who would be playing their hits heard on the radio. Although Memphis is a Blues mecca ..an unknown Texas/California Blues band is NOT the same animal. After her set I heard that she swore she'd never play in Memphis again! Though I gave a piece of history away - because it was for love - which is always the right reason at least thankfully no one will ever erase the memory of it!

PS, I also ushered shows for Jimi Hendrix (2 different shows), Sly & The Family Stone, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Tommy James & the Shondells, Sergio Mendez/Brazil 66 & many others. After a sound check one of the guitarists for The Classics Four (Spooky, Stormy, etc.) actually taught me the chords for Spooky ..which happened to be chords I'd wind up using in later years in several songs by Pink Floyd! ;)

@Aldyside

Thank you for this story. Lucky you!

@marleybee1946

You are a lucky man!

@dunruden9720

Janis

@littleheath3376

Awesome memories

@pattyneff3928

Fascinating!

@allenwaters96

Thank you Janis for making us feel those feelings

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎶🎸❤ SF SF 1960's & Haight ASHBURY ... Filmore West alot.

@janicejohnson6438

Wow, I had never heard her at this age and she already had that great ,strong throaty blues voice. She was so strong when she sang but her personality was so sweet, kind, shy and vulnerable. The combination made her irresistible. RIP Janice, we all love and miss you.

@sandraragole2411

🎶🎶🎸❤ yes SF Fillmore West & Haight ASHBURY Golden Gate park & always high but.. but that's how she coped. 1960s girls getting braver.

@47BBY

Heard her there back when I was in high school (just down the Peninsula from SF) and going to North Beach coffee houses was the height of adventure and walking a bit on the wild side. And kept following her career through the days in the Haight and beyond. Saw her one time on a fluke - my sister and I couldn't decide whether to go see Big Brother in SF or the Dead in San Rafael. We ended up going to the Dead show, and Janis showed up around 2 am and did an amazing set with PigPen and the guys. Good times!

@floepiejane

Fortuitous! Cheers (~);-}

@mikeburns9808

Best rendition of that Ma Rainey song I've ever heard. So great to hear the genesis of Janis' style. Great find. Thanks heaps

@joshuabrande2417

WOW!! A voice, personality and talent that hasn't yet been duplicated. Janice, you're sorely missed.

@lolotaeja3911

Her level of comittment to music and the transformative power it has never ceases to amaze me. She died b4 I was born, a high school buddy introduced me to her work. An incredibly talented, versatile, musician and performer. An American icon and priceless treasure, to be sure

@tonyeckman4822

Exquisite. We're very fortunate that this history was preserved on tape.
Someone had great foresight. Currently reading Janis- Her life and music.
R.I.P Queen Janis

@diogene3913

When Janis died, she took away my whole heart.

@chrissy54ful

I almost scrolled past this. So glad I decided to check out Janis Joplin in 1963. What a great gift she had. Powerful.

@RockinRichy

Wonderful post. I’ve loved her gutsy voice since I first heard the BB Mainstream.
LP. It is a shame that she abused it later on, but that comes with the lifestyle. However, her singing on The posthumously released “Pearl” reveals a voice reborn, pure and gorgeous. Janis was a singular artist, a sensitive and highly intelligent young woman. Rest In Peace.

@matthiaspaddeo9988

Gosh, she isthe very fucking best . In the sixties and today. There is nothing like Janis.

@ToddSmith1

Her depth as a performer is astonishing.

@larryklawiter9168

So great to hear how she channeled the old blues singers in the early days. Reverence and respect is evident.

@deborahchinn2439

The world suffered mightily by this gift from God’s far too early exit.

@rickhaigwood1079

THIS is one of the reasons I LOVE YouTube!!!!!
Something unknown to my ears always seems to roll by....

I actually got to hear Janice at "The Cellar" on Market Square in Houston by a fortunate happenstance as a 18 year old and it was awesome.....but this is phenomenal

Incredible recording......I'd love to find this on vinyl

Ebay???????? 🤔

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎸❤💐💐 me born raised SF 1960s. Haight ASHBURY

@LeonBerrange

Thank you for posting this unique bit of musical history. You can see why she made an impression. So young in this.. amazing.

@hubertsumlin9697

very impressive, she was a real house rocker compared to the usual fare on the folk scene.

@dankelly7712

Joplin was the real deal

@Hollcall

You could HEAR IT then. Couldn't you? WOW............! R.I.P. Pearl

@kukukev

"Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by..."

@tomlund4951

Kuku Kev 🙏🏻⚡️

@TheAuspicious8

What de fg😆😆😆🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳🇧🇳

@justjay926

Ma Rainey helped Bessie Smith, Janis loved both of these amazing women
She bought Bessie a headstone for her grave. I'll always miss u Janis & wonder 👏👏🎶🎶✍💜

@patersjy

How great is this. Brilliant!!!!

@michaelandrew964

and 8 years later I mounted the same stage, feeling the echoes of the greats before me.....

@thom6746

Extraordinary. She's 20 and sounds like a blues singer from the deep south 40 years before she was born. I prefer this, her early voice, to the banshee style of her later years.

@BoopShooBee

Missed her when I was going to coffee house in North Beach in 63. It was a bad time for rock and roll but a good time for folk music.

Did see her in Seattle in 67, but that's a long story.

@obbor4

It sure was a good time for Rock and Roll in England, though!

@silverfoxganishka6802

she was great and she wasn't singing just for herself but for all of us. She was a real benefit for that time especially when at that age we were trying to find ourselves Soulwaker.
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@heathermeisinger3676

My dad saw her at Woodstock and I luv singing the songs that she sang I sang with my cousins bang and I haven't felt that Free since. Janis Joplin and I had a lot of the same experiences good and bad

@hd4ms

Far freakin' out, man - the queen of Blues, a spirit without bounds - the Pearl.

@luvdylanstar

A thousand thank you'd for posting this. She was such an old soul. I feel that i have been blessed to come across this.
THANK YOU !!!

@pedromeza2398

Really good Blues and Jazz with a hint of Country Blue Grass, Janis was unique.

@adelmejbar6406

Wow what a voice it's seems like Robert Johnson spirit is here...Janis the Genius ✌️🕊

@philgetdown386

Sounds like a Bob Dylan style concert with a golden early blues voice....amazing finding this recording ....youtube is really cool for discovering ....I just received 'a little piece of her heart again'

@sulphate3348

Incredible clarity for something that had to have been recorded on old analog equipment.
Absolutely amazing if this genuine.

@sgdeluxedoc

Yeah, a lot of the coffee houses I played in the day set up a (mono, usually) reel to reel recorder and 2 or 3 mikes to captuure anything that was happening at the time.. Usually they eventually tossed them, or rather, recorded over them, unless they thought they worth preserving, or the performer wanted them, for the cost of the tape. Since there was another guitar playing along perhaps it was he who kept a copy, since if it was with Ms Joplins effects, we'd have heard about it much sooner, I'd expect..

@janisjoplin7151

God bless her.

@sjoh104041

What a treasure to listen to. Thank you very much, whoever found this recording.

@perrysar5954

Touched by God!...what a voice

@clarkewi

The talent is already quite evident.

@petersurdo4984

Nice to see her so young. Never really got old but I see more in her face than ever before.

@lenmatthies9626

No one ever has or I believe ever will match that voice.

@mdacostavilmar

Just an anthological and historical masterpiece!

@dynjarren7523

OMG! She was Amazing! What a powerful singer and personality! She was not to be ignored. This is powerful! Thanks to whoever posted this as I didn’t know it even existed.

@davidjefferies8376

,this is amazing, wonderful stuff.... She had so much soul it was frightening, she gave it all and more... With jimi another lovely soul has left us, too soon. Thanks for posting this gem. Dj.uk

@davidtice371

This is a remarkable recording. Her voice has authenticity. It sounds like a real clear recording from the 30's. I had no idea she was such an accomplished accoustic guitarist. This is a solid piece of work. She covers the material with headroom to spare.
Basically one women, one guitar and she fills the venue with music just exactly like the juke-joint blues travelers of the 30s. She has the power and grieving of Bessie Smith in her voice.
This is a remarkable, remarkable recording.
God Keep You, Pearl, wherever you are.

@russellbest2372

She h as a band playing with her..including another guitarist.

@zorroonmilkavitch1840

@@russellbest2372 well there you have it I didn't think she was doing all that please guitar that was supposed to be Blues yeah you go

@pattyneff3928

David Tice me too!. Im searching for lost movie footage of her playing blues on acoustic haven't found anything yet.
I think her gift as a blues guitarist isn't recognized much.
She played a Gibson Hummingbird, they are so fine.

@davidtice371

I didn't know she played a Humingbird. A Gibson Humingbird was my first accoustic guitar back in '73.
Don't ever sell or trade a good guitar. You won't ever forgive yourself. I've got some great guitars now, but I'll never forget that Gibson.

@pattyneff3928

David Tice aawwww man!

@a4forty

so wonderful we have these early live recordings of Janis. really shows her rare and beautiful gift.

@christygum3384

Great stuff ! Saw her live in 68 with Quicksilver. Man I love this Mississippi delta blues... Never heard these recordings.

@rocknaura

There was some deep hidden pain in her voice, I'll cry her leaving until my last day. Now she hangs out with the greatest in the parthenon of heaven. Long live Janis my shooting star!

@melindalemmon2149

Heaven is for the one who repents.

@rocknaura

@@melindalemmon2149 ok, I repent

@DEeMONsworld

dead is dead, nice you have a poetic imagination.

@sylviaross5486

AshCliff Garcia If there's a Rock & Roll Heaven, you know they gotta a hell of a band. And it's growing every year, unfortunately. : < (

@sylviaross5486

@Debbie Smith She doesn't know; she's just being a dickhead. What a smug person.

@lorenzobenso2906

j'ADORE !MERCI pour cette archive j'aime autant ses titres du débuts bruts et avec un minimum d'accompagnement autant que mes années favorites avec le cuivres du Kosmic Blues Band ou son tout dernier groupe en 1970.....Fantastique et RECONNAISSANCE! une PEARL déjà.....avis de musicien expérimenté.

@musicatiranna553

ecco!!!! uno dei motivi x cui benedico youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! impossibile definire questa grande artista con semplici parole.

@cbmccarty1

What amazing vocals. As I’ve heard it told, Janis went back to Austin after those coffee house gigs in San Francisco and a year or so later Chet Helms gave her a call. He wanted her to audition for a band in San Francisco, but she was hesitant until he said he pay her way up. She agreed on one condition. He’d also buy her a bus ticket back to Austin if it didn’t work out. As they say, the rest is history.

@stanspb763

That is how I heard it also. I moved to San Francisco in Jan 67 the day I graduated mid-term HS in Sacramento. I was not into music but ended up renting an apartment on the hill overlooking the Ocean Beach, near the Cliff House. It was a very cool apartment but the first night here I heard loud music and went out(there were only 4 apartments in the building) and followed it and discovered there was a concert at the base of the hill in a place called the Family Dog Ballroom which was Chet Helms place. Word got out quickly that there was this kid on the top of the hill who could repair guitar amps on his kitchen table so suddenly all these musicians starting knocking on my door. The whole southern facing front of h apartment was floor to ceiling glass and the only doors were sliding glass doors to they could see if I was home. Over the next few months, I met so many groups, mostly guitar and bass players and learned to really like the variety of music every night in the ballrooms. Chet Helms started that whole scene. The second guitarist who came up for help was Carlos Santana. I knew the Big Brother band pretty well, only met Janis a few times. She was a lot better than her band but their sloppy backing was a perfect backdrop for her.
Later I got into recording and ended up doing a lot of major records and owned a large studio. But the best time of my life was when I had no money(almost none was needed in SF back then) and got involved with a lot of interesting projects in 67-70. It is surprising how young everyone was. By 68 it was all changing, thousands of kids from all over streamed into SF who were just interested in free sex and drugs, when the origins of the scene was the Beats of the late 50s where the focus was on an intellectual alternative experience, literature, philosophy, jazz, poetry...
By 69 many of us moved north to Marin. GREAT TIME to be alive. I moved out of the US 19 years ago, live in a gigantic San Francisco city with more culture and the arts, St Petersburg Russia and loving it. It is open and creative in ways San Francisco was in the 50s and 60s. It is sad what it turned into. My favorite band of that period was the Dead. Yeah, Janis fit in much better than she ever thought she did. She was always the outsider and did not realize that there, was inside all along.

@cbmccarty1

@@stanspb763 that's a great story on your involvement in the San Francisco music scene. I was out there some myself and even got my music career started in San Francisco and began writing songs with Steve Miller

@pattyneff3928

cb mccarty thats a cool story!

@pattyneff3928

Nice!

@broadwayphil1

She was born great.

@ellendolber2765

You either have IT, or you don't, Janis had a triple dose if not more, THIS is great.

@paulimacschannel6725

Thanks She was born to sing

@sharongriffiths4796

She was so amazing... Those guys playing with her are really great also - so much better than Big Brother (sorry to say). But would she have gotten anywhere just being a fabulous straight-ahead country blues singer? Would she have been my idol and role-model? I think not - but she would not have been dead at 27 either. Ah, life...

@blanchefan

So wonderful to hear--the clarity and power in her young voice! Love the audience response also--thanks for posting!

@peterselander477

blanchefan ,u

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎸🎶❤💐 down on me every day out the door of SENIORS Mobile Home park. Funny cuzzzz after 2 yrs they finally understand.

@CydnotCharrise1

I used to read poetry at the Coffee Gallery. Back in the day...

@TMPreRaff

I played there in about 1972... Those were the days.

@shirlzafarmand348

Wow can’t believe this exists

@6thwatergateplumber

If you ask the question in 2019 who is the queen of rock & roll the answer is still the same. No one has come along to steal it away.

@brianchambers.7758

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

@drawingperfectcircles

Eye am sure Sista Rosetta would share the title with Janis and Janis would happily stand aside . That's what makes Janis, Janis 💜

@littlesam1

OMG what a find. This is fantastic

@jarodcarnarvon5198

Wow!!!! Never heard any of her early stuff before, nothing as early as 1963......

Glad I could find this on YouTube!!

@sandraragole2411

🌬🎸🎶 born and raised SF 1960s.
Fillmore West and understood her.
2021 I sing her tunes 4pm daily at SENIORS MOBILE PARK Northern sunny California. Janis 🌬❤

@debraarseneau4888

Ahh-mazing! Thank you. Incredible.voice.and.talent.

@mrfester42

Oh my lord! I've been listening to Janice since she started making records when I was a kid in the 60s but the second she started singing here I got goosebumps and my heart started beating faster. Talk about coming straight from the soul. Of course I always thought so but I've been listening to her for about 50 years now and I'm reminded here what a force of nature she really was.
That initial reaction is also mixed up with the knowledge that she was a something of a lost soul who never quite felt like she fit in and that surely was at the core of her untimely passing.
Such magnificence along with such sadness!

@davidbirks7166

She had a real power!
God, she sounds so young. Then, she sounds so aged.
Really a one-of-a-kind soul!

@joelangford7601

I'm glad she changed her style. This is interesting as history or experimentation, but her greatness was yet to come.