Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Blues Rock, Blues, Discographies | Author: artmuss | 9-04-2018, 21:46
Artist: Janis Joplin Title Of Album: Discography Year Of Release: 1965-2013 Label: Columbia, CBS, Legacy Country: United States Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Soul Quality: FLAC/APE/WV (*image,tracks,cue,log,scans) Time: 40 Albums Full Size: 24.30 gb
Born 19 January 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA Died 04 October 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
Joplin was the eldest of three children, Michael and Laura, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School where she began painting and listening to the blues of Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thornton and Odetta with the rebellious kids of the neighborhood. She graduated in 1960 and, in 1962, the university she left in the middle of her studies ran the headline in its campus paper "She dares to be different".
She hit 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 on 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 dependencies.
After taking time out in Brazil with friend Linda 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 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 Sound 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.
Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 (Performer).
1965 - This Is J.J 1966 - Light Is Faster Than Sound (Avalon Ballroom) 1966 - Live In San Francisco 1966-1970 - The Rarest Pearls 1967 - Big Brother And The Holding Company 1968 - Cheap Thrills 1968 - Live At The Winterland 1968 - Super Hits 1969 - At Woodstock 1969 - Filmore East 1969-02-12 NYC 1969 - Frankfurt 12th April 1969 1969 - I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama! 1969 - Janis At Woodstock 1969 - Live In Amsterdam 1969 - Live In Stockholm (Sweden April 19th) 1969 - Texas International Pop Festival 1970 - Be A Brother 1970 - Live In Honolulu 1970 - Pearl 1970 - Wicked Woman (Harvard Stadium 70) 1971 - Greatest Hits 1971 - How Hard It Is 1972 - Joplin in Concert 1974 - Soundtrack Fron Janis Movie 1980 - Anthology_2CD 1983 - Farewell Song 1984 - Cheaper Thrills 1984 - Early Perfomances 1993 - Janis_3CD 1995 - 18 Essential Songs 1995 - The Very Best Of 1997 - Absolute Janis 1998 - With Big Brother and The Holding Company-Live At Winterland 68 1999 - Rare Pearls [Bonus CD] 2003 - The Essential_2CD 2005 - Pearl (Legacy Edition) 2009 - The Woodstock Experience_2CD 2012 - Blow All My Blues Away 1962-1968_9CD 2012 - The Pearl Sessions_2CD 2013 - Box Of Pearls The Janis Joplin Collection_5CD