18 Essential Songs is a one-disc distillation of the triple-disc Janis box set. Running 70 minutes, it is a more extensive best-of than the ten-track 1973 Janis Joplin's...
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For the second time, Sony issued the three best albums in Janis Joplin's catalog -- I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama, Pearl, and Big Brother & the Holding Company's...
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In the spring of 1968, Big Brother And the Holding Company had just returned to San Francisco from their first major East Coast tour when promoter Bill Graham booked them...
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Recorded live in San Francisco on April 12 and April 13, this set is a snapshot of the band -- with fine sound -- reaching the peak of their form. All of the well-known...
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A ragtag collection of odds and ends, live and studio, from both the Big Brother and solo era. The best cuts are on the Janis box in different versions, but serious fans...
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Janis Joplin: Super Hits delivers ten of her best-known songs in a budget-priced collection. "Piece of My Heart," "Me and Bobby McGee," "Move Over," "Try," and "A Woman Left...
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Janis Joplin's solo debut was a letdown at the time of release, suffering in comparison with Big Brother's Cheap Thrills from the previous year, and shifting her style...
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About half of this two-record set features Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company in 1968, performing songs like "Down on Me" and "Piece of My Heart." The rest,...
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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...
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Columbia reissued two of Janis Joplin's two most popular albums, Pearl and Cheap Thrills, as a double-LP set in the late '70s. This isn't necessarily a bad way to acquire...
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Perhaps the greatest tragedy next to her early passing was the lack of Janis Joplin material released to the public after her death. She was missing from the original...
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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),...
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A solid, if skimpy, ten-track best-of that gathers the most important songs from Janis Joplin's solo career, as well as her stint with Big Brother & the Holding Company. The...
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This set puts together three very different Janis Joplin albums, skipping her three biggest studio albums in exchange for everything else that surrounded that period of...
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Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums of 1968. Joplin and Big Brother had...
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This companion album to the hit musical features spoken word excerpts of Joplin's letters home to her family, read by the cast member playing the troubled, deceased star....
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Columbia has managed to squeeze an impressive, perhaps excessive, number of compilations out of Janis Joplin's relatively slim body of recordings. With this two-CD set, The...
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After the live Cheap Thrills, Pearl is undeniably Janis Joplin's studio classic, and her final recording, released posthumously. She departed the earth at the very top of...
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