This week marks another big one by a Texas act: “ZZ Top’s First Album” was released 50 years ago.
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1 with Joplin’s name attached to it, a posthumous chart topper that continues to circulate ubiquitously a half century later.īecause 1971 was a rich one for music, this year will be full of commentary about beloved albums turning 50. 12 in 1968 with “Piece of My Heart.”īut “Me and Bobby McGee” reached No. The song ended up being Joplin’s only Top 40 hit under her own name with Big Brother and the Holding Company she hit No. “Pearl” contained Joplin’s take on “Me and Bobby McGee,” an instantly revered recording that found Joplin singing Kris Kristofferson’s words with both coiled restraint and enormous feeling. Photo: Burley Auction Groupįifty years ago today Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half century later, the sound of an artist really finding her voice. For all its incompleteness (or maybe because of it) Pearl remains a jewel in the short, gaudy career of a true original.Janis Joplin Pearl Framed Album Cover Photo. The aptly-titled song remains an instrumental as Janis died the day before her vocal was due to be added. There's a gaping hole at the center of this great album in the shape of Nick Gravenites' Buried Alive In The Blues. Even a track as throwaway as the a capella Mercedes Benz has a warmth that makes one wonder how she would have continued to mature. Pearl's most famous track - Klris Kristofferson's Me And Bobby McGee - is a song that wouldn't have suited her in 1967, but now her voice delivered it in a near definitive style. The Full Tilt Boogie Band keep her grounded on a song like A Woman Left Lonely which would, in earlier times, have allowed her to become too self-indulgent. Pearl, conversely is the sound of an artist growing up. Her other great album, Cheap Thrills (with Big Brother.) is a fine record but sloppy in execution.
Pearl is a smoother, more polished album than anything Janis had achieved previously.
Working with Doors' producer Paul Rothschild, she recorded enough music to make up an album despite the cruel curtailment of the sessions due to her demise. It was to be her last recorded work.īy the fall of 1970 Janis' prolonged use of heroin had worn down a vast amount of the goodwill that she'd built up in the business, yet it seemed that her happiness with the band of young Canadian musicians served, at least for a brief spell, to assuage her inner demons. Following a tour in the Summer of 1970 she and the band settled down to record what would become Pearl. Following a year-long spell with the Stax-styled Kozmic Blues Band she finally assembled what she considered to be her own band - The Full Tilt Boogie Band.
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Yet two years later, following her rejection of the group with whom she made her name - Big Brother And The Holding Company, she began a search for a band who could allow her to rock out yet ground her more wayward tendencies. Her wailing rendition of Ball And Chain signalled the arrival of a feisty blues shouter who made up in attitude what she may have lacked in technique. Like another flower child whose legacy long outlived their brief spell on this world, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin achieved worldwide notoriety after her appearance at Monterey festival.
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