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Big Brother & The Holding Company (Remastered) (CD)

By: Big Brother & The Holding Company (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Big Brother & The Holding Company (Remastered) (CD) Album By Big Brother & The Holding Comp...
1   Bye, Bye Baby  
2   Easy Rider  
3   Intruder  
4   Light Is Faster Than Sound  
5   Call on Me  
6   Women Is Losers  
7   Blindman  
8   Down on Me  
9   Caterpillar  
10   All Is Loneliness  
11   Coo Coo - (single)  
12   Last Time, The - (single)  
13   Call on Me - (previously unreleased, alternate take)  
14   Bye, Bye Baby - (previously unreleased, alternate take)  
 

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Uncut (p.96) - "'Piece Of My Heart' brings forth another unbelievable performance that out-souls the original..."

Title Note

Also available with PEARL, CHEAP THRILLS, I GOT DEM OL' KOZMIC BLUES AGAIN MAMA! and bonus disc RARE PEARLS in BOX OF PEARLS: THE JANIS JOPLIN COLLECTION.

Big Brother & The Holding Company: Janis Joplin (vocals); Sam Houston Andrew III, Peter S. Albin (guitar, bass); James Gurley (guitar); Dave Getz (drums).

Producer: Bob Shad.

Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.

Recorded in Chicago, Illinois in December 1966.

Originally released on Mainstream (6099).

Includes liner notes by Sam Andrews and Jud Cost.

Six months before becoming an overnight sensation following a blistering set at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, Big Brother was an unknown group from San Francisco playing a month-long Chicago club engagement. The band, made up of bassist Peter Albin, drummer David Getz, and guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, was completed when the quartet was introduced to singer Janis Joplin by mutual friend Chet Helms.

When their gig was cut short, Big Brother avoided returning to California when Bob Shad signed the group to Mainstream Records, his small, struggling jazz label. The three-day recording session in December 1966 resulted in a set of mostly original songs, with the exception of New York City street musician Moondog's "All Is Loneliness" and a more secular arrangement of the gospel standard "Down on Me." Despite Joplin's fiery singing style, Big Brother was still the kind of democracy in which Joplin shared vocals with Sam Andrew on the trippy "Light Is Faster Than Sound" and the more soulful duet "Call on Me." But most of this record featured Joplin reaching back and channeling her hero Big Maybelle on songs like the brassy "Women Is Losers" and the no-nonsense "Intruder."

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