This Legacy Edition includes extra tracks and demos, alternative takes of some of the original album’s favourites, plus a second disc of live material recorded on The Festival Express in 1970 (a travelling music revue that also had The Grateful Dead and The Band in tow).
The album that had begun under the dawn of a new optimism ended in her death (ruled as an accidental heroin overdose).
With the music already recorded, the night before she was due to lay down the vocal track Janis’s body was found face down in her hotel room in Hollywood, with fresh needle marks in her arm. There’s a chilling poignancy to the ghostly instrumental Buried Alive In The Blues. Whatever the reasons, there is an effervescence, a positive energy, radiating from much of Pearl, in stark contrast to most of Janis’s (all too few) other recordings.īut it’s not all chocolates and roses. Perhaps this upturn is responsible for the track Move Over sounding sturdy, powerful and confident for the upbeat mood that infuses Cry Baby the girlish smile with which she seems to deliver Me & Bobby McGee (which became a huge hit and her signature song) the laughter that spills from the almost throwaway Mercedes-Benz. With some painful failed relationships behind her, married to the bottle and having affairs with heroin, while recording Pearl the sun began to shine on Janis again, her life seemed to be improving and she was engaged to be married. Widely regarded as the best female blues/rock singer of her generation, Janis Joplin’s Pearl, originally released in 1971, is her best recording in terms of consistency, although some of her most powerfully chilling performances may reside elsewhere. Feinstein also shot the infamous toilet photograph on The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet. That famous cover photo was by Barry Feinstein, a Hollywood photographer who also took the striking cover shots of Bob Dylan on 1964’s The Times They Are A-Changin’ and George Harrison on his 1970 solo album, All Things Must Pass.She was always a blues nut: When, a few months before started work on Pearl, she discovered that the grave of the great Bessie Smith didn’t have a headstone, she paid for one bearing the inscription “The Greatest Blues Singer In The World Will Never Stop Singing.” To her fans, the same could be said of Janis Joplin.
“You start to expect it of yourself just as others expect it of you.” And so that’s what Janis became. It was a ploy that offered Joplin a degree of protection from the abuse she received from some press and fans about her perceived lack of control and deteriorating output (writer Lester Bangs seemed almost happy to highlight the insult “damn yammering bitch” in his Rolling Stone obituary).“If you practice long enough being a big, brassy blues mama, you become one,” said Joplin.
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