Big Brother & the Holding Company is the debut album of Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin, their main singer.
 Recorded during three days in December 1966 for Mainstream Records, it was released in the summer of 1967, shortly after the band's major success at the Monterey Pop Festival.
 Columbia took over the band's contract and re-released the album, adding two extra tracks, and putting Joplin's name on the cover.
 Several tracks on the album were released as singles, the most successful being "Down on Me" on its second release, in 1968.
"Down on Me" is a traditional freedom song from the 1920s or earlier that became popular following its remake by Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Janis Lyn Joplin ( ; January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock singer and songwriter.
 She was one of the biggest female rock stars of her era.
 After releasing three albums, she died of a heroin overdose at age 27.
 A fourth album, "Pearl", was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death.
 It reached number one on the "Billboard" charts.
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
 is a 1969 studio album by Janis Joplin.
 It was the first solo studio album Joplin recorded after leaving her former band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the only one released in her lifetime ("Pearl" was released 3 months after Joplin's death).
Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane.
 They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer.
 Their 1968 album "Cheap Thrills" is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the "Billboard" charts, and was ranked number 338 in "Rolling Stone"' s the 500 greatest albums of all time.
 The album is also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Erma Vernice Franklin (March 13, 1938 – September 7, 2002) was an American gospel and R&B singer.
 Franklin was the elder sister of American singer/musician Aretha Franklin.
 Franklin's best known recording was the original version of "Piece of My Heart", written and produced by Bert Berns, and recorded in 1967, for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.
 A cover version of the same song was recorded the following year by Big Brother and the Holding Company, with the lead vocal by Janis Joplin.
"Kozmic Blues" is a song from Janis Joplin's "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
" album, her first after departing Big Brother and the Holding Company.
 It was a part of Joplin's set at Woodstock Festival in 1969.
 Although the concert as a whole is not regarded as Joplin at her best, that specific performance became very popular and was released on "The Essential Janis Joplin".
Kacee Clanton (born Kellie Kristine Clanton) is a Los Angeles–based singer, songwriter, stage actress and performance coach who has worked as a background vocalist for recording artists Beth Hart, Joe Cocker, and Luis Miguel and toured as lead vocalist with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
 She has played Janis Joplin in the musical "Love, Janis" and was the alternate lead on Broadway in the Tony-nominated musical "A Night With Janis Joplin."
 She is also a vocal and performance instructor at Los Angeles College of Music.
 Both her music and vocals have been used in a variety of films, TV shows, and video games.
Cheaper Thrills is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin as their lead singer.
 Recorded live at one of their earliest concerts in San Francisco at California Hall on July 28, 1966, it includes the band's rendition of the song "Let the Good Times Roll," which was ten years old at the time.
 The recording of this concert became officially available to the public for the first time in 1984.
 The LP was originally released by Rhino Records as RNLP 121.
 Big Brother drummer David Getz produced and contributed liner notes to the back cover with his personal reminiscences of the circumstances leading to the formation and success of the band.
Love, Janis is the musical stage show about the life and music of rock and roll singer Janis Joplin, conceived, adapted and directed by Randal Myler.
 It debuted Off-Broadway in 2001, with musical direction by former Big Brother And The Holding Company band member Sam Andrew.

Question: "Down on Me" is a traditional freedom song from the 1920s or earlier that became popular following its remake by Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Janis Lyn Joplin, an American rock singer and songwriter, and died of a heroin overdose at what age?
Answer: 27