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JANIS JOPLIN

with THE FULL TILT BOOGIE BAND plus BOBBY WOMACK, SPOONER OLDHAM, NICK GRAVENITES, etc.

The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting performances of her era...

"PEARL"

<reissue, originally published in 1971>

Produced by Paul A. Rothchild

LP     COLUMBIA RECORDS      STEREO   PC 30322

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    EARLY-80s REPRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

NOTES: Artist name is Janis Joplin/Full Tilt Boogie on the back cover, Janis Joplin on the spine & labels

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: (scanned) 074643032216    (text) 0 7464-30322-1

LABEL: COLUMBIA - RED LABEL w/YELLOW 'COLUMBIA' - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) PC 30322    (rear) 30322

Catalog on labels: PC 30322   AL 30322 / PC 30322  BL 30322

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): P AL 30322-2AG

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): P BL-30322-2BE

On labels: rim text reads '® "Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.'

On back cover: all songs BMI except noted otherwise

Tracklist + Credits

Produced by Paul A. Rothchild

Manufactured by Columbia Records / CBS, Inc. / 51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y.

® "Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.

tracklisting

Side A: MOVE OVER - CRY BABY - A WOMAN LEFT LONELY

HALF MOON - BURIED ALIVE IN THE BLUES

Side B: MY BABY - ME AND BOBBY McGEE - MERCEDES BENZ

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grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Janis Joplin's second masterpiece (after Cheap Thrills), Pearl was designed as a showcase for her powerhouse vocals, stripping down the arrangements that had often previously cluttered her music or threatened to drown her out. Thanks also to a more consistent set of songs, the results are magnificent -- given room to breathe, Joplin's trademark rasp conveys an aching, desperate passion on funked-up, bluesy rockers, ballads both dramatic and tender, and her signature song, the posthumous number one hit "Me and Bobby McGee." The unfinished "Buried Alive in the Blues" features no Joplin vocals -- she was scheduled to record them on the day after she was found dead. Its incompleteness mirrors Joplin's career: Pearl's power leaves the listener to wonder what else Joplin could have accomplished, but few artists could ask for a better final statement...(AllMusic)