Big Brother and the Holding Company Guitarist James Gurley Dead at 69

Photo: Bank/WireImage.com James Gurley, a guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company who featured prominently on Janis Joplin’s early hits, passed away last week following a heart attack just two days shy of his 70th birthday, Variety reports. The band’s Cheap Thrills was named as one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time. That [...]

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