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Pearl

by Janis Joplin

Released
August 31, 1999
Published
11 months ago
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Album review

Janis Joplin made the blues her own. Though she didn't live to finish this album before her 1970 death from a heroin overdose, her intense passion and frantic cries of pain and ecstasy were enough to make Pearl one of the most memorable recordings of her era. Her band does fill up some vinyl with the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues," but it's the vocals that make this album worth hearing these many decades later. Listen to the tortured heartbreak of "Cry Baby" or the hopeful declarations of Kris Kristofferson's "Me & Bobby McGee" and understand why Joplin remains an essential, if tragic, figure in pop. This reissue of Joplin's final album includes four live bonus tracks recorded during the 1970 Canadian Festival Express Tour. --Steve Appleford

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Janis Joplin's screaming soulful voice in many ways is a personification of the Flower Power Era (along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Grace Slick and many others). She came to symbolize energy of the Psychedelic, Haight Ashbury, love beads, love ins, free love, flower children, black light posters and incense, expansion of consciousness, spiri...

Track list

  1. Move Over
  2. Cry Baby
  3. Woman Left Lonely
  4. Half Moon
  5. Buried Alive in the Blues
  6. My Baby
  7. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band
  8. Mercedes Benz
  9. Trust Me
  10. Get It While You Can
  11. Tell Mama [Live][#][*]
  12. Little Girl Blue [Live][#][*]
  13. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live][#][*]
  14. Cry Baby [Live][#][*]