Janis Joplin Big Brother & The Holding Company






Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album Cheap Thrills is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.



1967 Big Brother & The Holding Company *




 Big Brother & the Holding Company is the debut album of Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin, their main singer. Recorded during three days in December 1966 for Mainstream Records, it was released in the summer of 1967, shortly after the band's major success at the Monterey Pop Festival. Columbia took over the band's contract and re-released the album, adding two extra tracks, and putting Joplin's name on the cover. Several tracks on the album were released as singles, the most successful being "Down on Me" on its second release, in 1968


1. Bye, Bye Baby





Cheap Thrills is a studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was their last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noise to give the impression of a live album, for which it was subsequently mistaken by listeners. Only the final song, a cover of "Ball and Chain", had been recorded live (at The Fillmore in San Francisco)

1. Combination Of The Two
2. I Need A Man To Love
3. Summertime
4. Piece Of My Heart
5. Turtle Blues
6. Oh, Sweet Mary
7. Ball And Chain
8. Roadblock
9. Flower In The Sun
10. Catch Me Daddy
11. Magic Of Love










1968- Live At Winterland  


Live at Winterland '68 is an album by Janis Joplin with her band Big Brother and The Holding Company. It was recorded at the Winterland Ballroom on April 12, 1968, and April 13, 1968 and includes live renditions of songs from their studio albums. The return to San Francisco comes after a successful tour in the east coast. Acts like B. B. King and Albert King would open for the band during the tour. This album has lengthier renditions of their associated songs including "Light Is Faster Than Sound" extending over 7 minutes. Overall, the recordings are just another instance of the band's growing interest. Live at Winterland '68 includes many tracks from Cheap Thrills, the band's breakthrough studio album. "Ball and Chain" is the only track from Cheap Thrills recorded live and it is a live rendition from one of these 1968 shows at the Winterland Ballroom.




1. "Down on Me" (Janis Joplin) 00:00 
2. "Flower in the Sun" (Sam Andrew) 03:01
3. "I Need a Man to Love" (Janis Joplin, Sam Andrew) 06:14 
4. "Bye Bye Baby" (Powell St. John) 12:08 
5. "Easy Rider" (James Gurley) 16:22 
6. "Combination of the Two" (Sam Andrew) 21:48 
7. "Farewell Song" (Sam Andrew) 29:40 
8. "Piece of My Heart" (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns) 35:25 
9. "Catch Me Daddy" (Janis Joplin, Peter Albin, Sam Andrew, David Getz, James Gurley) 41:00
 10 "Magic of Love" (Mark Spoelstra) 47:15 
11. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)50:18 
12. "Light Is Faster Than Sound" (Peter Albin) 55:26 
13. "Ball and Chain" (Big Mama Thornton) 1:02:24
14. "Down on Me" (second version) (Janis Joplin) 1:12:24








Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional lifestyle, made her one of the biggest female stars in her lifetime. She died of a drug overdose in 1970 after releasing only four albums.


Joplin rose to fame in 1967 during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival while the lead singer of the then unknown San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After two albums with the band, she left them to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin went into the Billboard Top 100, including "Me and Bobby McGee" which reached number 1 in March 1971; her most popular songs include "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball 'n' Chain", "Summertime", and "Mercedes Benz" the final song she recorded.


Joplin was well known for her performing ability. Audiences and critics both referred to her stage presence as "electric". Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004 and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Joplin remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold in the USA

1969- I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! *


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I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! is a 1969 studio album by American singer-songwriter Janis Joplin. It was the first solo studio album Joplin recorded after leaving her former band, Big Brother and the Holding Company,  and the only one released in her lifetime (Pearl was released three months after Joplin's death).

01 Try (Just a little bit harder) 00:00
02 Maybe 03:57
03 One Good Man 07:38
04 As Good As You've Been To This World11:51
05 To Love Somebody 17:19
06 Kozmic Blues 22:33
07 Little Girl Blue 26:57
08 Work Me, Lord 30:49 





1971 - Pearl *



Pearl is the second and final solo studio album by Janis Joplin, released posthumously on Columbia Records, catalogue KC 30322, in January 1971. It was also released simultaneously in a 4 channel Quadraphonic format in the U.S., catalogue number CQ 30322, and in Japan as SOPN 90 and a foil type cover with obi as SOPN 44005. 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 number one on the Billboard 200, holding that spot for nine weeks. It has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. 






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