Big Mama Thornton: The Hound Dog Howler Who Inspired Janis
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 1 January 1972
IN THE DEEPEST depths of Transatlantic's Marylebone High Street (London) headquarters there's a wire cage which looks like Death Row in your favourite neighbourhood prison.
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