Janis Joplin - Janis Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2016]+Janis Joplin - The Blues According to Janis (Early Performances 63-65) [2013]+Janis Joplin - Bonus Tracks & Rarities [2015]

JANIS JOPLIN

Janis Joplin - Janis Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2016]+Janis Joplin -  The Blues According to Janis (Early Performances 63-65) [2013]+Janis Joplin - Bonus Tracks & Rarities [2015]

Janis Lyn Joplin  Born 19 January 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA, died 04 October 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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. She was inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 (Performer). (Discogs)

Here are a few moments of Janis Joplin's life that you do hear that often, Janis Joplin - The Blues According to Janis (Early Performances 63-65) [2013] and Janis Joplin - Bonus Tracks & Rarities [2015],  together with the soundtrack of the Original Motion Picture,  Janis Joplin - Janis Little Girl Blue [2016].

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Track lists

Janis Joplin - Janis Little Girl Blue (OST)

01 Careless Love 3:07

02 Down On Me 2:02

03 Women Is Losers (Live) 5:06

04 Ball And Chain (Live) 8:06

05 Piece Of My Heart 4:12

06 Catch Me Daddy (Live) 5:31

07 Magic Of Love (Live) 3:02

08 Summertime 3:57

09 Raise Your Hand (Live) 3:43

010 Maybe 3:38

011 Work Me, Lord (Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 16, 1969) 8:07

012 Trust Me 3:16

013 Cry Baby (Live) 6:24

014 Tell Mama (Live) 6:31

015 Get It While You Can 3:25

016 Me And Bobby McGee 4:29

017 Little Girl Blue 3:44

Janis Joplin -  The Blues According to Janis

01 Trouble In Mind (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:36

02 What Good Can Drinkin' Do (Austin, TX 1963-64) 2:40

03 Silver Threads And Golden Needles (Austin, TX 1963-64) 2:26

04 Mississippi River (Austin, TX 1963-64) 2:29

05 Stealin' (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:49

06 No Reason For Livin' (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:58

07 Black Mountain Blues (w/The Dick Oxtot Jazz Band, San Francisco, CA 1965) 4:27

08 Walk Right In (w/The Dick Oxtot Jazz Band, San Francisco, CA 1965) 2:03

09 River Jordan (w/The Dick Oxtot Jazz Band, San Francisco, CA 1965) 3:50

10 Mary Jane (w/The Dick Oxtot Jazz Band, San Francisco, CA 1965) 2:08

11 Kansas City Blues (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:46

12 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (Austin, TX 1963-64) 2:56

13 See See Rider (Austin, TX 1963-64) 2:07

14 San Francisco Bay Blues (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:48

15 Winin' Boy (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:53

16 Careless Love (Austin, TX 1963-64) 3:05

17 I'll Drown In My Own Tears (Austin, TX 1963-64) 1:41

Janis Joplin - Bonus Tracks & Rarities

CD1

01 What Good Can Drinkin' Do 2:43

02 Trouble In Mind (with Jorma Kaukonen) 3:03

03 Hesitation Blues (with Jorma Kaukonen) 4:03

04 Women Is Losers (Live At The Avalon Ballroom - December 9, 1966) 5:05

05 Down On Me (Single Version) 2:03

06 Coo Coo (Single) 1:58

07 The Last Time (Single) 2:17

08 Call On Me (Alternate Take) 2:41

09 Bye, Bye Baby (Alternate Take) 2:39

10 MEDLEY: Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers (Live At The Matrix, San Francisco - January 31, 1967) 2:35

11 Call On Me (Live At The Avalon Ballroom - March 17, 1967) 3:34

12 Ball And Chain (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival, Afternoon - June 17, 1967) 8:05

13 Down On Me (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival - June 17, 1967) 3:26

14 Combination Of The Two (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival - June 17, 1967) 5:22

15 Harry (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival - June 17, 1967) 0:37

16 Road Block (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival - June 17, 1967) 6:18

17 Ball And Chain (Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival - June 17, 1967) 8:15

18 Catch Me Daddy (Studio Outtake From Cheap Thrills Sessions, Take 1) 4:53

19 Farewell Song (Studio Outtake From Cheap Thrills Sessions, Take 3) 4:21

20 Summertime (Studio Outtake From Cheap Thrills Sessions, Take 1) 4:03

CD2

01 Misery'n (Studio Outtake From Cheap Thrills Sessions, Alternate Version) 4:06

02 Easy Once You Know How (Studio Outtake) 3:53

03 It's A Deal (Studio Outtake) 2:18

04 Roadblock (Studio Outtake) 5:33

05 Flower In The Sun (Studio Outtake) 3:05

06 Catch Me Daddy (Live At The Grande Ballroom, Detroit - March 2, 1968) 5:31

07 Magic Of Love (Live At The Grande Ballroom, Detroit - March 2, 1968) 3:58

08 Down On Me (Live At The Grande Ballroom, Detroit - March 2, 1968) 3:07

09 Piece Of My Heart (Live At The Grande Ballroom, Detroit - March 2, 1968) 4:09

10 Flower In The Sun (Live At Winterland, San Francisco - April 12, 1968) 3:11

11 Farewell Song (Live At Winterland, San Francisco - April 12, 1968) 4:58

12 Bye, Bye Baby (Live At Winterland, San Francisco - April 12, 1968) 4:27

13 Road Block (Live At The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco - June 23, 1968) 2:59

14 Flower In The Sun (Live At The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco - June 23, 1968) 3:04

15 Summertime (Live At The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco - June 23, 1968) 4:45

16 Harry (Columbia Studios, June, 1968) 0:57

17 Raise Your Hand (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show - March 19, 1969) 2:27

18 Maybe (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show - March 19, 1969) 4:07

19 Dear Landlord (Session Outtake) 2:32

20 Maybe (Live In Amsterdam, Holland - April 1, 1969) 4:00

21 Albert Hall Interview (London, April 21, 1969) 1:18

CD3

01 Raise Your Hand (Live In Frankfurt, West Germany - April 12, 1969) 3:44

02 Ball And Chain (Live In Frankfurt, West Germany - April 12, 1969) 5:15

03 Maybe (Live In Frankfurt, West Germany - April 12, 1969) 4:08

04 Summertime (Live In Frankfurt, West Germany - April 12, 1969) 4:45

05 To Love Somebody (Live At The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, August, 1969) 5:14

06 Kozmic Blues (Live At The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, August, 1969) 5:05

07 Summertime (Live At The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, August, 1969) 5:04

08 Piece Of My Heart (Live At The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, August, 1969) Radio Ad 6:31

09 Raise Your Hand (Live At The Fillmore, San Francisco - October 5, 1969) 5:16

10 Bo Diddley (Live At The Fillmore, San Francisco - October 5, 1969) 6:13

11 All Is Loneliness (Live At The Fillmore, San Francisco - April 4, 1970) 5:46

12 Ego Rock (Live At The Fillmore, San Francisco - April 4, 1970) 8:02

13 One Night Stand (with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Originally Produced By Todd Rundgren 3/28/70) 3:07

14 One Night Stand (with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Version 2, Alternate Take ) 3:06

15 Move Over (Live On The Dick Cavett Show, June 25, 1970) 4:18

16 Dick Cavett TV Interview (Live On The Dick Cavett Show, June 25, 1970) 4:17

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