Janis Joplin - Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection
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Artist: Janis JoplinEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Bye, Bye Baby
- Easy Rider
- Intruder
- Light Is Faster Than Sound
- Call On Me
- Women Is Losers
- Blindman
- Down On Me
- Caterpillar
- All Is Loneliness
- Coo Coo (Single)
- The Last Time (Single)
- Call On Me (Alternate Take)
- Bye, Bye Baby (Alternate Take)
- Combination Of The Two
- I Need A Man To Love
- Summertime
- Piece Of My Heart
- Turtle Blues
- Oh, Sweet Mary
- Ball And Chain
- Roadblock (Studio Outtake)
- Flower In The Sun (Studio Outtake)
- Catch Me Daddy (Live)
- Magic Of Love (Live)
- Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
- Maybe
- One Good Man
- As Good As You've Been To This World
- To Love Somebody
- Kozmic Blues
- Little Girl Blue
- Work Me, Lord
- Dear Landlord (Session Outtake)
- Summertime (Live At Woodstock)
- Piece Of My Heart (Live At Woodstock)
- Move Over
- Cry Baby
- A Woman Left Lonely
- Half Moon
- Buried Alive In The Blues
- My Baby
- Me And Bobby McGee
- Mercedes Benz
- Trust Me
- Get It While You Can
- Tell Mama (Live)
- Little Girl Blue (Live)
- Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Live)
- Cry Baby (Live)
- It's A Deal (Studio Outtake)
- Easy Once You Know How (Studio Outtake)
- Maybe (Live)
- Raise Your Hand (Live)
- Bo Diddley (Live)
Free Music Notes for Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection
Free Music Review: A Real Jewel
Hit: 5 Stars
The first concert I ever attended in my life was seeing Janis perform at Cal Expo, in Sacramento, just a few weeks prior to her death. I had been a fan since I was about 13, much to the dismay of my parents, who found her voice untenable -- well, Mom & Dad, this boxed set of just about everything Janis Joplin ever recorded will bring it all back for you -- just as it did for me -- except that I love every cry and screech and note of emotion with the same devoted passion today as I did 40 years ago.
Not only does this collection give us Janis in all her shouting glory from her days with Big Brother and the Holding Company, but we get a sense of her transition into her more bittersweet period of ballads and introspective songwriting that dominated her last years from the albums "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!" and "Pearl". Since all four of her original studio releases have been digitally remastered for the CDs in this box set -- and each album supplemented with previously unreleased bonus tracks and outtakes -- if you have Janis in your heart you now can have her forever in your ears. Like Janis sings "Get It While You Can...."
Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection Poster
Janis Joplin was one of the most exhilarating performers of an era blessed with riveting stage artists, but all but her most emphatic champions must concede her recorded oeuvre is problematic. With Big Brother & the Holding Company she was surrounded by up-from-the-streets cohorts who were spiritually attuned to Joplin, even if they weren't always musically in tune. After one rushed, premature effort for the Mainstream label, Big Brother hit the top of the charts with one of the touchstones of the San Francisco sound, Cheap Thrills. Barraged by critics who believed Joplin's skills as a blues and soul singer were being squandered in a psychedelic setting, the toast of Haight-Ashbury went solo with the up-and-down I Got Them Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama. Joplin was hitting her stride during the 1970 Pearl sessions when she died of a drug overdose at age 27. The album's posthumous release was a critical and commercial smash. Box of Pearls binds the 1999 remastered and expanded versions of the aforementioned albums and tosses in a five-track rarities EP entitled, appropriately enough, Rare Pearls. Much of Box of Pearls is brilliant while portions are badly dated, but it's all Joplin. --Steven StolderPop Music CDs
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