(Blues Rock, Rhythm & Blues) [LP] [24/96] Janis Joplin - Pearl - 1971, FLAC (image+.cue)

Personnel

Janis Joplin – vocals, guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee"
Richard Bell – piano
Ken Pearson – organ
John Till – electric guitar
Brad Campbell – bass guitar
Clark Pierson – drums

Additional personnel

Bobby Womack – acoustic guitar on "Trust Me"
Bobbye Hall – conga, percussion
Phil Badella, John Cooke, Vince Mitchell – backing vocals
Sandra Crouch – tambourine
Robert Honablue - engineer

Produced by

Paul A. Rothchild - Productor
Phil Macy - engineer
Barry Feinstein & Tom Wilkes - Photography & Design for Camouflage Productions

Released: January 11, 1971
Recorded: September 5 - October 3, 1970

Side one
1. "Move Over" Janis Joplin
2. "Cry Baby" Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns
3. "A Woman Left Lonely" Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham
4. "Half Moon" John Hall, Johanna Hall
5. "Buried Alive in the Blues" Nick Gravenites

Side two
1. "My Baby" Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman
2. "Me and Bobby McGee" Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster
3. "Mercedes Benz" Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure
4. "Trust Me" Bobby Womack
5. "Get It While You Can" Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman (Howard Tate 1966 rendition)

Manufactured And Distributed By CBS Records Canada Ltd.
Artist name is Janis Joplin on the spine & labels, Janis Joplin/Full Tilt Boogie on the back cover.

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from wiki:

The album has a more polished feel than the albums she recorded with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band due to the expertise of producer Paul A. Rothchild and her new backing musicians. Rothchild was best known as the recording studio producer of The Doors, and worked well with Joplin, calling her a producer's dream. Together they were able to craft an album that showcased her extraordinary vocal talents. They used Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles.

The Full Tilt Boogie Band were the musicians who accompanied her on the Festival Express, a concert tour by train of Canada, in the summer of 1970. Many of the songs on this album were recorded on the concert stage in Canada two months before Joplin and the band started their Los Angeles recording sessions. The band also appeared twice on The Dick Cavett Show. They also played many American cities, both before and after Festival Express, although no recordings of those concerts have been officially released.

All nine tracks that she sings on were personally approved and arranged by Joplin. Pearl features the number one hit "Me and Bobby McGee", on which she played acoustic guitar, written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster; "Trust Me", by Bobby Womack, written for Joplin; Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can", showcasing her vocal range; and the original songs "Move Over" and "Mercedes Benz", the latter co-written by Joplin, Bobby Neuwirth and Michael McClure.

Joplin sang on all tracks except "Buried Alive in the Blues", which remained a Full Tilt Boogie instrumental because she died before adding vocals, but she approved the instrumental track. The recording sessions, starting in early September, ended with Joplin's untimely death on October 4, 1970. Her final session, which took place on Thursday, October 1 after a break of several days, yielded her a cappella "Mercedes Benz."

The album cover, photographed by Barry Feinstein in Los Angeles, shows Joplin reclining on her Victorian era loveseat with a drink in her hand.