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18 Essential Songs (Import) (CD)

By: Janis Joplin

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DISC 1 for 18 Essential Songs (Import) (CD) Album By Janis Joplin
1   Trouble In Mind  
2   Down On Me  
3   Bye Bye Baby  
4   Ball And Chain  
5   Piece Of My Heart  
6   I Need A Man To Love  
7   Summertime  
8   Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)  
9   One Good Man  
10   Kozmic Blues  
11   Raise Your Hand  
12   Tell Mama  
13   Move Over  
14   Mercedes Benz  
15   Get It While You Can  
16   Me And Bobby McGee  
17   Trust Me  
18   Half Moon  
 

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Personnel includes: Janis Joplin (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Till, Sam Andrew (guitar, background vocals); Jorma Kaukonen, Michael Bloomfield, James Gurley (guitar); Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers (baritone saxophone, background vocals); Richard Bell (piano, background vocals); Ken Pearson (organ, background vocals); Richard Kermode, Gabriel Mekler (keyboards); Brad Campbell (bass, background vocals); Peter Albin (bass); Clark Pierson (drums, background vocals); Dave Getz, Maury Baker, Lonnie Castille, Ray Markowitz (drums); Vince Mitchell, Phil Badella, John Cooke (background vocals).
Producers: Lou Adler, John Phillips, John Simon, Gabriel Mekler, Paul Rothchild.
Compilation producer: Bob Irwin.
Recorded between 1965 and 1970. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.
Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music Studios, New York).
All tracks on 18 ESSENTIAL SONGS are taken from the three-disc box set JANIS.
Drawing inspiration from Bessie Smith and Odetta, Joplin developed a brash, uncompromising vocal style quite unlike accustomed folk madonnas. In 1966 Janis was invited to the Bay Area to front Big Brother And The Holding Company. Their Cheap Thrills, a joyous celebration of true psychedelic soul, contained two Joplin 'standards', 'Piece Of My Heart' and 'Ball And Chain', but she left the group in November 1968. Electric Flag members Mike Bloomfield, Harvey Brooks and Nick Gravenites helped assemble a new act, known as the Kozmic Blues Band. I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama was coolly received, but the set contained several excellent Joplin vocals, notably 'Try', 'Maybe' and 'Little Girl Blue'. The singer subsequently dissolved the band and undertook medical advice for drink/drug abuse. A slimmed-down group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, was unveiled in May 1970 featuring a tighter, more intimate sound. Sessions for a debut album were all but complete when, on 4 October 1970, Joplin died of a heroin overdose at her Hollywood hotel. The posthumous Pearl proved her most consistent work, with 'My Baby', 'Cry Baby' and the anthemic 'Get It While You Can'. The highlight was the chart-topping 'Me And Bobby McGee', which allowed Joplin to be both vulnerable and assertive. Janis knew few boundaries, artistic or personal, and her sadly brief catalogue is marked by bare-nerved honesty.

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Drawing inspiration from Bessie Smith and Odetta, Joplin developed a brash, uncompromising vocal style quite unlike accustomed folk madonnas. In 1966 Janis was invited to the Bay Area to front Big Brother And The Holding Company. Their Cheap Thrills, a joyous celebration of true psychedelic soul, contained two Joplin 'standards', 'Piece Of My Heart' and 'Ball And Chain', but she left the group in November 1968. Electric Flag members Mike Bloomfield, Harvey Brooks and Nick Gravenites helped assemble a new act, known as the Kozmic Blues Band. I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama was coolly received, but the set contained several excellent Joplin vocals, notably 'Try', 'Maybe' and 'Little Girl Blue'. The singer subsequently dissolved the band and undertook medical advice for drink/drug abuse. A slimmed-down group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, was unveiled in May 1970 featuring a tighter, more intimate sound. Sessions for a debut album were all but complete when, on 4 October 1970, Joplin died of a heroin overdose at her Hollywood hotel. The posthumous Pearl proved her most consistent work, with 'My Baby', 'Cry Baby' and the anthemic 'Get It While You Can'. The highlight was the chart-topping 'Me And Bobby McGee', which allowed Joplin to be both vulnerable and assertive. Janis knew few boundaries, artistic or personal, and her sadly brief catalogue is marked by bare-nerved honesty.

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