Janis Joplin C/D, S/D

At some point in the early '70s, I owned Pearl. Probably on 8-Track, although it could have been one of the albums I bought and abused before I began collecting in earnest. That copy, whatever format it was in, is long gone.

Bought a used CD today, with four extra tracks. I almost want to poll it, but I suppose "Bobby McGee" would win going away (or maybe "Mercedes Benz" would finish a close second).

I wrote about my odd but powerful reverence for Joplin a few years ago here, in a blog entry about Big Little Lies:

https://heardjustwhatiseen.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/looking-out-at-the-rain/

Listening to Pearl in the car, I was surprised by how emotionally "Get It While You Can" hit me. Partly, I think, that was in trying to cast my mind back to 1970, how she might have felt recording it, or how someone might have felt hearing it. Mostly it was just the song, the performance, and her. Definitely got to me.

Possibly the best female vocalist in all rock history.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:34 PM (10 years ago)

i like janis just fine but this is kind of a stretch imo

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, February 4, 2016 6:16 PM (seven years ago)

not remotely a stretch, all it takes is one viewing of the Monterey performance, nobody else comes close