1 	Summertime 	
2 	Cry Baby 	
3 	Piece Of My Heart 	
4 	Try 	
5 	Me And Bobby McGee 	
6 	Down On Me 	
7 	Mercedes Benz 	
8 	A Woman Left Lonely 	
9 	Move Over 	
10 	Ball And Chain 	
11 	Bye, Bye Baby 	
12 	Half Moon 	
13 	My Baby 	
14 	Buriend Alive In The Blues 	
15 	Trust Me 	
16 	Get It While You Can
17	Little Girl Blues
18	Time
19	My Own Tears
20	Come Back

Joplin was the eldest of her siblings Michael and Laura, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School, where she began painting and listening to blues artists Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thornton and Odetta with the other rebellious kids in her neighborhood. She graduated high school in 1960, and in 1962, she quit university in the middle of her studies. The university then ran the headline, "She Dares To Be Different" in the student newspaper.

She went to San Francisco in 1963, first living in North Beach and later, Haight-Ashbury, where she begun the drug and alcohol habits that would tragically end her life. During this period, she recorded a session with Jorma Kaukonen that later appeared as the bootleg "The Typewriter Tape". Noticeably suffering from her addictions, she returned to Port Arthur in May 1965 and 'straightened up' for a year, enrolling as a sociology major at Lamar University.

In 1966, at the invitation of Chet Helms whom she'd known as a teenager, she returned to California and was recruited as the singer for Big Brother & The Holding Company in June, appearing at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco during her first public performance with them. In August 1966, the group signed with Mainstream Records and recorded an album. However, it was not released until a year later and in the meantime, with very little reward, they moved with the Grateful Dead to a house in Lagunitas, California. It was there that Joplin relapsed into hard drug use.

Joplin and the band signed with Albert Grossman in November 1967 and released Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills in 1968. This release was the culmination of a year in which Joplin had wowed audiences at the Monterey Pop Festival, the Anderson Theater in New York, the Wake For Martin Luther King Jr concert with Jimi Hendrix in New York and on TV's prime-time Dick Cavett Show. Joplin then left the band after a Family Dog benefit gig in December 1968 and formed a back-up group, the Kozmic Blues Band, releasing an album in September 1969. The group disbanded three months later, with Joplin again suffering from her addictions.

After taking time out in Brazil with close friend Linda Gravenites (wife 1962-1970) of Bay Area musician Nick Gravenites), who was her costume designer and praised by Joplin in the May 1968 issue of Vogue, Joplin returned to America and formed the Full Tilt Boogie Band, which began touring in May 1970. She also appeared in reunion concerts with Big Brother & The Holding Company at this time. She then began recording a new album in September 1970 with producer Paul A. Rothchild.

By Saturday, October 3rd Joplin had already laid down a number of takes at Sunset Recording Studios in LA, including "Mercedes Benz". On the following day she failed to appear and John Cooke, the road manager of Full Tilt Boogie Band, drove to the Landmark Motor Hotel where Joplin was staying. There he found her dead on the floor of her room, the result of a seizure caused by a heroin overdose.

Joplin was cremated and her ashes scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean. Her unfinished recordings were assembled and the result was the posthumously released Janis Joplin - Pearl in 1971. It became the biggest selling album of her career.

Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 (Performer). ---discogs.com

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CD1
1. 	Ball & Chain 	10:50 	
2. 	Codine 	4:22 	
3. 	Janis Last Cavett Interview 	8:59 	
4. 	Bye Bye Baby 	2:41 	
5. 	Misery'n 	4:08 	
6. 	So Sad To Be Alone 	5:01 	
7. 	Catch Me Daddy 	4:54 	
8. 	Hesitation Blues 	4:10 	
9. 	Flower In The Sun 	3:04 	
10. 	Typewriter Talk

CD2
1. 	Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 	4:00 	
2. 	Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 	4:35 	
3. 	Trouble In Mind 	3:18 	
4. 	Farewell Song 	4:23 	
5. 	Kansas City Blues 	3:12 	
6. 	Long Black Train Blues 	2:32 	
7. 	Easy Once You Know How 	3:53 	
8. 	Roadblock 	5:31 	
9. 	Summertime 	4:06 	

The blues-influenced rocker had one of the most powerful voices of the Sixties. Her voice is equal parts tough and vulnerable, a shout into the void that resonated with a generation.

Janis Joplin brought her powerful, bluesy voice from Texas to San Francisco’s psychedelic scene, where she went from drifter to superstar.

She has been called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation.” Joplin’s vocal intensity proved a perfect match for the high-energy music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, resulting in a mix of blues, folk and psychedelic rock. Joplin’s tenure with Big Brother may have been brief, lasting only from 1966 to 1968, but it yielded a pair of albums that included the milestone Cheap Thrills (1968). Moreover, her performance with Big Brother at 1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival, a highlight of the film documentary Monterey Pop (1968), is among the great performances in rock history.

In the words of biographer Myra Friedman, “It wasn’t only her voice that thrilled, with its amazing range and strength and awesome wails. To see her was to be sucked into a maelstrom of feeling that words can barely suggest.” She was a dynamic singer who shred her vocal cords on driving psychedelic rockers like “Combination of the Two” and then delivered a delicate, empathetic reading of George Gershwin’s “Summertime.”

Joplin was born in 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil-refining town on the coast. Growing up, she was a social outcast who found an outlet in music. Joplin was drawn to blues (Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith) and soul (Otis Redding, Tina Turner and Etta James). She performed folk blues on the coffeehouse circuit in Texas and San Francisco before hooking up with Big Brother—guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer David Getz—at the suggestion of Chet Helms, a hip entrepreneur and fellow Texan. The chemistry came as a revelation even to Joplin. “All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band,” she said. “And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.”

Big Brother were loud, explosive and somewhat deliberately crude in their mélange of blues and psychedelia. Helms, one of a group of event organizers who called themselves the Family Dog, booked the group on some of the earliest bills on the nascent San Francisco scene. Big Brother became regulars at Helm’s Avalon Ballroom in the mid-to-late Sixties. It was at the Avalon where much of Cheap Thrills—an album that topped the album charts for eight weeks in 1968—was recorded. That explosive showcase of psychedelic soul featured Joplin’s raw, impassioned readings of Willie Mae Thornton’s “Ball and Chain” and “Piece of My Heart.” The latter song, which had been a Top Ten R&B hit in 1967 for Erma Franklin (Aretha’s younger sister), was co-written by Jerry Ragavoy, a favorite songwriter of Joplin’s. As a solo artist, she would record other songs of his, including “Cry Baby,” “Get It While You Can” and “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder).”

Joplin left Big Brother in December 1968, taking guitarist Sam Andrew with her. Her first solo album, I’ve Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, appeared in 1969, and she toured extensively with her Kozmic Blues Band. By mid-1970, however, she dissolved that outfit and formed a superb new one, Full-Tilt Boogie. They gelled over the course of several months of touring and entered the studio to record what would turn out to be Joplin’s swan song. Joplin had often sought refuge in drugs and alcohol, and she was found dead of a heroin overdose in a Hollywood hotel room on October 4, 1970. The posthumously released Pearl (1971)—the title was her nickname—comprised nine finished tracks and one instrumental to which she was supposed to have added vocals on the day she died. It was prophetically titled “Buried Alive in the Blues.”

Pearl became Joplin’s biggest seller, holding down the Number One spot for nine weeks in 1971. It included “Me and Bobby McGee,” a song written for her by ex-lover Kris Kristofferson. A quixotic portrait of a countercultural love affair, sung by Joplin as an affectionate, road-weary country blues, “Me and Bobby McGee” perfectly captured the bohemian spirit of the times. The powerful performances on Pearl, including “Move Over,” “Half Moon” and “Get It While You Can,” hint at what might have come from Joplin had she not died at 27.

Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash yet inwardly vulnerable and troubled personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. It could be argued that her legacy has as much to do with her persona as her singing. Music journalist Ellen Wills asserted that “Joplin belonged to that select group of pop figures who mattered as much for themselves as for their music. Among American rock performers, she was second only to Bob Dylan in importance as a creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation’s mythology.”

Rock critic Lillian Roxon summed up her influence with these words: “[Janis Joplin] perfectly expressed the feelings and yearnings of the girls of the electric generation—to be all woman, yet equal with men; to be free, yet a slave to real love; to [reject] every outdated convention, and yet get back to the basics of life.” ---rockhall.com

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1. Me (Instrumental) 	5:15 	
2. Maybe 	4:07 	
3. Summertime 	4:49 	
4. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) 	6:19 	
5. Can't Turn You Loose 	7:30 	
6. Combination Of The Two 	5:45 	
7. Ball And Chain 	6:51 	
8. Piece Of My Heart	4:27 

In 1967, Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song "Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number 1 in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball and Chain", and "Summertime"; and her original song "Mercedes Benz", her final recording. ---revolvy.com

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CD 1

1.    Down On me
2.    Coo Coo
3.    Women Is Losers
4.    Bye, Bye Baby
5.    Ball and Chain (en vivo)
6.    Roadblock
7.    Piece Of My Heart
8.    Misery’n
9.    I Need A Man To Love
10.    Summertime
11.    Flower In The Sun (en vivo)
12.    Farewell Song (en vivo)
13.    Raise Your Hand (en vivo)
14.    To Love Somebody (en vivo) [*]
15.    Kozmic Blues (en vivo) [*]

CD 2

1.    Try (Just a little bit harder)
2.    Maybe
3.    One good Man
4.    Little Girl Blue
5.    Work Me, Lord
6.    Tell Mama (en vivo)
7.    Move Over
8.    Cry Baby
9.    A Woman Left Lonely
10.    Half Moon
11.    My Baby
12.    Me And Bobby McGee
13.    Mercedes Benz
14.    Trust Me
15.    Get It While You Can

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 Essential Janis Joplin, the label's at it again, though it's a good one to get if you don't want to collect all the Joplin releases, and certainly don't want to get the expensive Joplin boxes, but want more than what fits onto a single disc. Including both solo recordings and highlights of her stint with Big Brother & the Holding Company, it has all the songs fans and critics would consider milestones in her career: "Ball and Chain" (a version recorded live in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, not the more familiar one from Cheap Thrills), "Piece of My Heart," "Down on Me," "Summertime," "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)," "Tell Mama" (the live 1970 performance from the expanded edition of Pearl), "Get It While You Can," "Mercedes Benz," and "Me and Bobby McGee." And there are also good tracks that aren't as overly familiar, like "Coo Coo," "Misery'n," "Maybe," "Work Me, Lord," and "A Woman Left Lonely." The substitution of the less familiar renditions of "Ball and Chain" and "Tell Mama" might rankle some consumers expecting to hear the more common ones, but that's frankly unlikely. So what does the set offer to those Joplin fans who already have a lot of her material? Well, not much, but in the time-honored manner of attaching bonus tracks to oft-recycled material, this does have a couple of previously unissued live cuts ("Kozmic Blues" and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody") from her 1969 set at Woodstock. Those songs are actually reasonably good, but aren't worth buying the whole set for. They would have been a better deal if served out as part of a legit collection of her Woodstock performances, or as a collection of previously unreleased live Joplin performances, if enough high-caliber stuff of the sort was available. ---Richie Unterberger, AllMusic Review

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Disc: 1
1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues
6. My Baby
7. Me And Bobby McGee
8. Mercedes Benz
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can
11. Me And Bobby McGee (Mono Single)
12. Half Moon (Mono Single)
13. Cry Baby (Mono Single
14. Get It While You Can (Mono Single)
15. Move Over (Single Version)
16. A Woman Left Lonely (Mono Single)

Disc 2
1. Overheard In The Studio...
2. Get It While You Can (Take 3)
3. Overheard In The Studio...
4. Get It While You Can (Take 5)
5. Overheard In The Studio...
6. Move Over (Take 6)
7. Move Over (Take 13)
8. Move Over (Take 17)
9. Me And Bobby McGee (Demo Version)
10. Me And Bobby McGee (Take 5 - Alternate)
11. Cry Baby (Alternate Version)
12. A Woman Left Lonely (Alternate Vocal)
13. Overheard In The Studio...
14. My Baby (Alternate Take)
15. Overheard In The Studio...
16. Get It While You Can (Take 3)
17. My Baby (Alternate Version)
18. Pearl (Instrumental)
19. Tell Mama (Live Version)
20. Half Moon (Live From "The Dick Cavett Show")

Personnel: 
Janis Joplin (vocals); 
John Till (guitar); 
Richard Bell (piano); 
Ken Pearson (organ); 
Clark Pierson (drums); 
Bobbie Hall (conga drum, bongos); 
Sandra Crouch (tambourine).

Not to state the obvious, but the reality is that The Pearl Sessions by Janis Joplin is primarily for completists and musical historians. That's fine; given its design and contents it appears it was meant to be. The two-disc package includes the original album and mono 45 masters of six of its tracks -- including "Me & Bobby McGee," "Move Over," and "Get It While You Can." These are interesting, but they don't hold a candle to the stereo album mixes. It's the second disc that holds the fan treasures. The studio banter by Joplin, producer Paul A Rothchild, and the Full-Tilt Boogie Band is priceless. It offers proof of Joplin's exacting standards when it came to getting across the maximum emotional impact of a song, as well as her vulnerability -- asking for guidance from Rothchild as to how to approach a particular take (he hands control right back to her). There is also plenty of humor, including comments about Richard Nixon and an unnamed rock star that Joplin claims she wouldn't bed because he's boring and a nerd. The genuine camaraderie between her, her band, and her producer offers ample evidence that these sessions were as much fun as they were work. Musically, there are multiple alternate takes of some album cuts. Sometimes they rival or even surpass versions that ended up on the final product: the fifth take of "Get It While You Can" (there are three here) and the demo of "Me & Bobby McGee," where she is accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. There are three takes in a row of "Move Over." The alternate of "Cry Baby," while inferior to the album take, reveals the song's deep emotional attraction for Joplin. Alternate takes of "Cry Baby" and "My Baby" are compelling. In addition, there is an instrumental version of "Pearl" (that could have been left off as it reveals nothing and is wholly uninteresting), a live version of "Tell Mama," with a breakneck tempo that makes one wonder why it was chosen, and a performance of "Half Moon," from the Dick Cavett Show in 1970. Add to this Rothchild's own remembrances from and observations about these sessions, Holly George-Warren's excellent liner notes, some rare photographs, and hardcore Joplin fans and historians have an excellent retrospective package which, while illuminating the process of the creation of Pearl, doesn't replace it in the canon. ---Thom Jurek, AllMusic Rewiew

"The Pearl Session" to dwupłytowy zbiór nigdy wcześniej nie wydanych nagrań studyjnych, koncertowych i innych rarytasów dokumentujących album będący arcydziełem stworzonym przez Janis Joplin. W 1971 roku, jej pośmiertnie wydany krążek "Pearl" zdobył pierwsze miejsca list przebojów, przynosząc ponadczasowy przebój "Me and Bobby McGee". Po raz pierwszy w jednym wydawnictwie znalazły się oryginalne wersje mono utworów Janis, jak również intrygujące, nowo odnalezione archiwalne wersje alternatywne piosenek pochodzących z sesji do albumu "Pearl". Na odnalezionych taśmach znajdują się między innymi zapisy Janis w studio żartującej z producentem Paulem Rothchildem (The Doors). --- muzyka.onet.pl

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1. Piece Of My Heart 
2. Summertime 
3. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) 
4. Cry Baby 
5. Me And Bobby McGee 
6. Down On Me 
7. Get It While You Can 
8. Bye, Bye Baby		play 
9. Move Over 
10. Ball And Chain

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 compilation 18 Essential Songs offers a wider selection, but does not include the original version of "Me and Bobby McGee," which makes Greatest Hits the better purchase for those who only want one Janis Joplin disc, even if it isn't definitive. The 1999 CD reissue adds two bonus tracks, "Maybe" and "Mercedes Benz." ---Steve Huey, AMG

Janis Joplin (born 19 January 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, United States, died 4 October 1970 in Los Angeles, California) was an American singer, songwriter, composer and painter. Originally the lead singer for the blues rock band Big Brother & The Holding Company, Joplin left the band in late 1968 for a solo career. She released two solo albums, I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) and Pearl (1971), the latter released after her death. During her solo career, she was backed by the Kozmic Blues Band and later, the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her version of the Kris Kristofferson song “Me And Bobby McGee” reached #1 in the United States on March 20, 1971. ---last.fm

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1. Apple of my eye,
2. 219 train,
3. Codine,
4. Down and out,
5. Turtle blues,			play
6. I aint got a worry,
7. Brownsville

Janis Joplin - Vocals, Guitar
Guiseppe Insingo - Bass 2/4/5
Ras Jab Jimmy - Bass, Tambourine (Name here is vague).
Afucho Cabasa (Name here is vague).
Etaoin Shrdiu - 12 String Guitar (Name here is vague).
Able Perkins - Piano
Hongo Gurley - Drums, Tambourine
St.James Tabernacle Choir - Back Up Vocals
"The Grouchy Old Hillbilly" - Slide Guitars

Recorded on an unknown date in 1964 or 1965. Location unknown.

Watching that other misfit Paris Hilton bawl about her jail sentence made me reach for this recording. Janis Joplin was from the other side of Paris Hilton’s social class. By all accounts, Joplin never fitted whether in school or with her peers. The only time she felt super-confident was when she sang. Hilton on the other hand is a misfit because she behaves like a spoilt brat. Both have in common a recording career.

The seven-tracks on this CD come from an audition Joplin did before she joined Big Brother & The Holding Company. The year of this recording is either 1964 or 1965. Where it was recorded remains a mystery. The tapes come from James Gurley, the Big Brother guitarist. Originally just Joplin and her acoustic guitar, Gurley has embellished it with a full band to make this sound like a real Big Brother session. "It's unheard Janis Joplin material," Gurley says. "It's probably the best album she's done since 'Cheap Thrills.'" "It was a work of love," he says. "I wanted it to be something, if she was looking over my shoulder, she would be proud of. I tried to keep her first and I didn't change what she did. "This is what she was doing before Big Brother. I wanted to bring out that innocence before she got crazy from rock 'n' roll."

In 1996, Gurley said he made 100 copies and gave them away or sold some through eBay. These seven tracks later appeared on the nine-CD fan compilation Blow All My Blues Away that collected everything else Columbia saw fit not to release. But Gurley has shied from releasing this citing ownership issues. He owns the master reel-to-reel tape but clearly Joplin’s family would have something to say about any release. Since this is pre-fame Joplin, her voice is unblemished by alcohol and drug abuse - just pure blues phrasings. The original version of Turtle Blues, Joplin’s own composition, is here plus a different version of Buffy St Marie’s Codine which Joplin adlibbed with her own lyrics. Joplin was singing here in the hope of getting into Big Brother. Everything is pretty. In Alice Echols’ book, Scars Of Sweet Paradise, she quotes Joplin friend Frank Davis offering a view of Joplin’s darker side, when she wanted to piss everyone.

"I have a recording of her doing a song where she’s yelling at the top of her lungs for 10 minutes about dead black people," he says. "She was too damn strong for everybody." After just one album with Big Brother, by mutual consent, Joplin split for the bright lights and the big city. Even among the counterculture, she was a misfit. If anyone has a copy of that 10-minute yelling session, send us a copy. ---Professor Red

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1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues play
6. My Baby
7. Me & Bobby McGee
8. Mercedes Benz play
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can

Personnel
    Janis Joplin – vocals, guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee"
    Richard Bell – piano
    Ken Pearson – organ
    John Till – electric guitar
    Brad Campbell – bass guitar
    Clark Pierson – drums
Additional personnel
    Bobby Womack – acoustic guitar on "Trust Me"
    Bobbye Hall – conga, percussion
    Phil Badella, John Cooke, Vince Mitchell – backing vocals
    Sandra Crouch – tambourine

Pearl is the fourth album by Janis Joplin, released posthumously on Columbia Records, catalogue PC 30322, in January of 1971. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, her final touring unit. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, holding that spot for nine weeks. It has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA.

The album has a more polished feel than the albums she recorded with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band due to the expertise of producer Paul A. Rothchild and her new backing musicians. Rothchild was best known as the producer of The Doors, and worked well with Joplin. Together they were able to craft an album that showcased her extraordinary vocal talents. The Full Tilt Boogie were the musicians who accompanied her on the famous Festival Express in the summer of 1970, and many of the songs on this album were introduced on the concert stage in Canada.

Pearl features the hits "Me and Bobby McGee" written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, and "Move Over," written by Joplin. Joplin sings on all of the tracks except "Buried Alive in the Blues", which remained an instrumental as she died before being able to add her vocals. The recording sessions, which began in early September, ended with Joplin's untimely death on October 4, 1970. The iconic album cover shows Joplin reclining on her Victorian Era loveseat with a drink in her hand, conveying that this is Janis Joplin as she really is.

Pearl – album Janis Joplin, wydany 1 lutego 1971, cztery miesiące po jej śmierci. Jest to jej czwarty album i pierwszy nagrany z Full Tilt Boogie.

Ma bardziej staranny, gładki feeling, niż albumy nagrane z Big Brother & the Holding Company, lub z The Kozmic Blues Band, co jest zasługą producenta Paula A. Rothchilda oraz jej nowych muzyków. Rothchildowi, który był znany głównie jako producent The Doors, dobrze pracowało się z Janis. Razem zdołali lepiej oddać jej talenty wokalne. The Full Tilt Boogie zagrali razem z Janis na słynnym festiwalu Festival Express w lecie 1970, a wiele piosenek z tego albumu zostało zaprezentowanych na koncertach w Kanadzie.

Pearl zawiera hity takie jak "Me and Bobby McGee" (wydany na singlu z "Half Moon" na stronie B) autorstwa Krisa Kristoffersona i Freda Fostera, oraz słynny, śpiewany a capella "Mercedes Benz" (napisany z Michaelem McClurem i Bobem Neuwirthem), czy "Move Over", który napisała sama. Janis śpiewa we wszystkich utworach z wyjątkiem "Buried Alive in the Blues", który pozostał instrumentalny, ponieważ zmarła nie zdążywszy nagrać ścieżek wokalnych. Sesje nagraniowe, które rozpoczęły się we wczesnym wrześniu, przerwała nagła śmierć Janis 4 października 1970. Ikoniczna okładka płyty przedstawia autorkę półleżącą na swojej wiktoriańskiej małej dwuosobowej kanapie z drinkiem w ręce, sprawiającą wrażenie, że jest to Janis Joplin taka, jaką naprawdę jest. W 2003 album został sklasyfikowany na 122. miejscu listy 500 albumów wszech czasów wg magazynu Rolling Stone.

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1.  Trouble In Mind  3:44 
2.  Long Black Train  3:59 
3.  Kansas City Blues - F
4.  Kansas City Blues  3:01 
5.  Hesitation Blues  4:18 
6.  Strumming
7.  Nobody Knows When You're Down 3:18 
8.  Daddy, Daddy, Daddy  3:58



Janis Joplin - Vocals 
Jorma Kaukonen – Guitar

Recorded in Jorma’s House, San Francisco, CA, 64-06-25

I’ve always loved the vintage aesthetic to this recording. It gives me a good sense of what it might have been like to live in San Francisco during the sixties and bear witness to all sorts of spontaneous musical events. Janis‘ heart wrenching voice is accompanied by the fingerstyle sounds of Jorma Kaukonen on the guitar.

Recorded on June 30, 1964, they call it The Typewriter Tape because you can hear a typewriter in the background played by Margareta Kaukonen (Jorma’s wife at the time) as a percussion instrument. --- cuckoobird.net

The Typewriter Tape is a rare and precious bootleg of Janis Joplin, recorded on June 25, 1964 at the home of Jorma Kaukonen, future guitarist for the Jefferson Airplane, accompanied by Margareta Kaukonen, wife of Jorma, on the typewriter (as a percussion instrument ).

There are reports that Margareta Kaukonen had no intention of percussing with the typewriter. I was writing, really. It is known that she was a plastic artist and poet, having painted covers and also written letters (under the pseudonym Malles Meje) in partnership with Jorma (example: To hot to handle – 1985). Therefore, typing was mere incidental and accidental sound while friends played with their instruments, all of them strings (nylon, steel, and vocals). ---rockdownload.org

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1. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) 		
2. Maybe 		
3. One Good Man 		
4. As Good as You've Been to This World 		
5. To Love Somebody 		
6. Kozmic Blues 		
7. Little Girl Blue 		
8. Work Me, Lord 

    Janis Joplin - lead vocals, guitar
    Sam Andrew - guitar, vocals
    Michael Monarch - guitar (uncredited)
    Mike Bloomfield - guitar (One Good Man, Work Me Lord, Maybe)
    Brad Campbell - bass guitar, brass instrumentation
    Richard Kermode - electronic organ, keyboards
    Gabriel Mekler - electronic organ, keyboards
    Goldy McJohn - electronic organ, keyboards (uncredited)
    Maury Baker - drums
    Lonnie Castille - drums
    Jerry Edmonton - drums (uncredited)
    Terry Clements - tenor saxophone
    Cornelius Flowers - baritone saxophone
    Luis Gasca – trumpet

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 toward soul-rock in a way that disappointed some fans. Removed from that context, it sounds better today, though it's still flawed. Fronting the short-lived Kozmic Blues Band, the arrangements are horn heavy and the material soulful and bluesy. The band sounds a little stiff, though, and although Joplin's singing is good, she would sound more electrifying on various live versions of some of the songs that have come out over the years. The shortage of quality original compositions -- indeed, there are only eight tracks total on the album -- didn't help either, and the cover selections were erratic, particularly the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." On the other hand, "Try" is one of her best soul outings, and the reading of Rodgers & Hart's "Little Girl Blue" is inspired. The 1999 CD reissue adds three bonus tracks: a cover of Bob Dylan's "Dear Landlord" from the Kozmic Blues sessions that was first heard on the Janis box set, and previously unreleased versions of "Summertime" and "Piece of My Heart" from the Woodstock Festival. "Summertime" is okay, but this "Piece of My Heart" really pales next to the Big Brother interpretation. --- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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