Janis Joplin - Pearl
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Artist: Janis JoplinEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-08-31
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- 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)
Free Music Notes for Pearl
Free Music Review: JANIS' SWANSONG (She was a classic, and so is her very special last album)
Hit: 5 Stars
Janis Joplin's Pearl (1971) was recorded during September 1970. The last song they cut was Mercedes Benz, one of two songs on the album written by Janis. It was taped on Oct. 1, 1970, just three days before Janis suddenly died. It's sung a cappella, and a little tongue-in-cheek, but the song really does have some "social and political import" (as Janis says introducing the song) regarding materialism, economic class, and religon. It's really sort of sad to hear it sometimes, knowing that she unknowingly had only three days to live at the time. At the end of Mercedes Benz, Janis laughs and says, "That's it!".
Pearl is a great album, maybe Janis Joplin's best, and it highlights her talent in a variety of musical settings. And what talent she had! She was dramatic, soulful, expressive, tough yet vunerable, and beautifully feminine in her own way. A real "Pearl" (also Janis' self-chosen nickname). The first and only album she recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Pearl has a cleaner sound, more polished and less experimental than her earlier work. That's not to say the album doesn't rock. It does! The first two songs are good examples. Move Over (written by Joplin) and Cry Baby are both classic Janis, rockin', bluesy, and tough. A Woman Left Lonely is slower, as in the slow piano blues tradition, but just as direct and completely satisfying. Half Moon is a lively rocker with funky guitar, spacy piano, and a spirited vocal performance from Joplin. It's one of my favorites here. Get It While You Can is another winner that rocks the blues in classic Janis Joplin fashion. The big hit from the album was fellow Texan Kris Kristofferson's Me And Bobby McGee. Janis plays the acoustic guitar herself on this one, and she and the band end the country song with a vigorously wide-open improvisational rock coda. Janis is the star on Pearl, and the Full Tilt Boogie Band allows her to shine while providing a competent backdrop for her stirring and genuine vocal performances. She was a great blues, rock, and country singer, and on Pearl she really shows it.
Paul Rothchild, who also produced all but one of The Doors albums, produced Pearl, and says it was Janis Joplin's best album. Is Pearl her best album? It's really a matter of taste and the sentimental connections that people have to each album. What do I think? Maybe it's her best, maybe not. But Pearl is my favorite of all of Janis' albums. And this is one of my all-time favorite album covers, too. What a smile!
Pearl Poster
Janis Joplin made the blues her own. Though she didn't live to finish this album before her 1970 death from a heroin overdose, her intense passion and frantic cries of pain and ecstasy were enough to make Pearl one of the most memorable recordings of her era. Her band does fill up some vinyl with the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues," but it's the vocals that make this album worth hearing these many decades later. Listen to the tortured heartbreak of "Cry Baby" or the hopeful declarations of Kris Kristofferson's "Me & Bobby McGee" and understand why Joplin remains an essential, if tragic, figure in pop. This reissue of Joplin's final album includes four live bonus tracks recorded during the 1970 Canadian Festival Express Tour. --Steve ApplefordPop Music CDs
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