Janis Joplin – Box of Pearls: Janis Joplin Collection Box set [5CD Box Set] (2013) [CD FLAC]

Artist: Janis Joplin
Album: Box of Pearls: Janis Joplin Collection Box set [5CD Box Set]
Genre: Rock
Year: 2013
Size: ~ 1.32 gb
Source: CD
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit

Description:

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 Stolder

A limited-edition five-CD box set comprising both albums that Janis Joplin made with Big Brother & the Holding Company (Cheap Thrills and Big Brother & the Holding Company), both of her solo albums (I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and Pearl), and a bonus EP with five previously unreleased recordings. Each of these four albums includes previously unreleased bonus tracks (including live material), and each is available separately with the same bonus cuts. The tracks on the bonus EP aren’t available anywhere else, and if you’re devoted enough to consider laying out for this deluxe box, you’re probably most interested in what’s on that fifth disc. There are a couple of Cheap Thrills outtakes, “It’s a Deal” and “Crazy Once You Know How,” with a garagey feel and some typically scorching, uninhibited Big Brother lead guitar; it can be seen why they may not have been deemed strong enough for the album, but they’re pretty cool to have. The live versions of “Maybe” (April 1969) and “Raise Your Hand” (October 1969) are OK, but not essential; of greater curiosity is the raw live charge through “Bo Diddley” (also October 1969). In the original long-box shaped release, each of the CDs is packaged in a mini-LP-type jacket, which would be really cool except for the fact that, cheapskates that Sony management is, none has an inner-sleeve, so the CDs tend to roll out of the sleeve once they’re unsealed, unless you put them back in the box very carefully; additionally, the producers didn’t re-create the gatefold design of Cheap Thrills; there are two subsequent versions of the set, a domestic wide CD-sized box containing full, jewel-cased versions of the five discs, and a Japanese version in mini-LP sleeves (with inner sleeves) and with two accompanying booklets. Note that this box does not include a good deal of material that has shown up on the Janis box, the Janis movie soundtrack, In Concert, and Farewell Song, so it’s not a complete collection of Joplin’s recordings.

Tracklist:

Disc 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
The Last Time
Call on Me
Bye Bye Baby
Disc 2

Combination of the Two
I Need a Man to Love
Summertime
Piece of My Heart
Turtle Blues
Oh, Sweet Mary
Ball and Chain
Road Block
Flower in the Sun
Catch Me Daddy
Magic of Love
Disc 3

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
Summertime
Piece of My Heart
Disc 4

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
Little Girl Blue
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
Cry Baby
Disc 5

It’s a Deal
Easy Once You Know How
Maybe
Raise Your Hand
Bo Diddley

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