Janis Joplin – Discografia

JANIS JOPLIN

BIOGRAFIA

Janis Lynn Joplin (Port Arthur, 19 de janeiro de 1943 – Los Angeles, 4 de outubro de 1970) foi uma cantora e compositora estadunidense. Tornou-se conhecida no final dos anos 60 como vocalista da banda Big Brother and the Holding Company, e posteriormente como artista solo.

Posso não durar tanto quanto as outras cantoras, mas sei que posso destruir-me agora se me preocupar demais com o amanhã. (Janis)

Janis nasceu na cidade de Port Arthur, Texas, nos Estados Unidos. Ela cresceu ouvindo músicos de blues, tais como Bessie Smith e Big Mama Thornton e cantando no côro local. Joplin concluiu o curso secundário na Jefferson High School em Port Arthur no ano de 1960, e foi para a Universidade do Texas, na cidade de Austin, onde começou a cantar blues e folk com amigos.

Cultivando uma atitude rebelde, Joplin se vestia como os poetas da geração beat, mudou-se do Texas para San Francisco em 1963, morou em North Beach, e trabalhou como cantora folk. Por volta desta época seu uso de drogas começou a aumentar, incluindo a heroína. Janis sempre bebeu muito em toda a sua carreira, e sua preferida era a bebida Southern Comfort. O uso de drogas chegou a ser mais importante para ela do que cantar, e chegou a arruinar sua saúde.

Depois de retornar a Port Arthur para se recuperar, ela voltou para San Francisco em 1966, onde suas influências do blues a aproximaram do grupo Big Brother & The Holding Company, que estava ganhando algum destaque entre a nascente comunidade hippie em Haight-Ashbury. A banda assinou um contrato com o selo independente Mainstream Records e gravou um álbum em 1967. Entretanto, a falta de sucesso de seus primeiros singles fez com que o álbum fosse retido até seu sucesso posterior.

O destaque da banda foi no Festival Pop de Monterey, com uma versão da música “Ball and Chain” e os marcantes vocais de Janis. Seu álbum de 1968 Cheap Thrills fez o nome de Janis.

Ao sair da banda Big Brother, Janis formou um grupo chamado Kozmic Blues Band, que a acompanhou em I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969). O grupo se separou, e Joplin formou então o Full Tilt Boogie Band. O resultado foi o álbum Pearl (1971), lançado após sua morte, e que teve como destaque as músicas “Me and Bobby McGee” (de Kris Kristofferson), e “Mercedes-Benz”, escrita pelo poeta beatnik Michael McClure.

DISCOGRAFIA

Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Typewriter Tape (1964)

1. Trouble In Mind
2. Long Black Train
3. Kansas City Blues (False Start)4. Kansas City Blues
5. Hesitation Blues
6. (Strumming)
7. Nobody Knows When You’re Down
8. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy

This is Janis Joplin (1965)

1. Apple Of My Eye
2. Zip Train [219 Train]3. Codine4. Down & Out5. Turtle Blues
6. I Aint Got A Worry
7. Brownsville

Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin (1967)

1. Bye, Bye Baby
2. Easy Rider
3. Intruder
4. Light Is Faster Than Sound
5. Call On Me
6. Women Is Losers
7. Blindman
8. Down On Me
9. Caterpillar
10. All Is Loneliness
11. Coo Coo
12. The Last Time
13. Call On Me
14. Bye, Bye Baby

Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968)

1. Combination of the Two
2. I Need a Man to Love
3. Summertime
4. Piece of My Heart
5. Turtle Blues
6. Oh, Sweet Mary
7. Ball and Chain
8. Roadblock (Studio outtake)
9. Flower in the Sun (Studio outtake)
10. Catch Me Daddy (Live)
11. Magic of Love (Live)

 

Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company – Live at Winterland ‘68

1. Down on Me
2. Flower in the Sun
3. I Need a Man to Love
4. Bye Bye Baby
5. Easy Rider
6. Combination of the Two
7. Farewell Song
8. Piece of My Heart
9. Catch Me Daddy
10. Magic of Love
11. Summertime
12. Light Is Faster Than Sound
13. Ball and Chain
14. Down on Me

Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)

1. Try Or Just A Little Bit Harder
2. Maybe
3. One Good Man
4. As Good As Know You’ve Been To This World
5. To Love Somebody
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Work Me Lord

Janis Joplin & Full Tilt Boogie Band – Pearl (1971)

1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues
6. My Baby
7. Me and Bobby McGee
8. Mercedes Benz
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can

Love Janis (Rare Tracks 1963-1971)

1. What Good Can Drinkin’ Do
2. I Bring the News
3. Down on
4. I’m Somebody Important
5. Women Is Losers
6. Our First Record Is Finally Out
7. Piece of My Heart
8. I’m Sorry, Sorry
9. A Happening
10. Summertime
11. He’s a Beatle, Mother performed
12. Ball and Chain
13. I May Just Be a Star Someday
14. A Woman Left Lonely
15. Twenty-Five
16. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)17. Did I Tell You About My Reviews?18. Little Girl Blue
19. Twenty-Seven
20. Me and Bobby McGee
21. Mercedes Benz
22. The Last Letter: Really Rushin’ Through
23. Get It While You Can

Joplin in Concert (1972)

1. Down On Me
2. Bye, Bye Baby
3. All Is Loneliness
4. Piece Of My Heart
5. Road Block
6. Flower In The Sun
7. Summertime
8. Ego Rock
9. Half Moon
10. Kozmic Blues
11. Move Over
12. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
13. Get It While You Can

14. Ball And Chain

Greatest Hits (1972)

1. Piece of My Heart
2. Summertime
3. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)4. Cry Baby
5. Me and Bobby McGee
6. Down on Me
7. Get It While You Can
8. Bye, Bye Baby
9. Move Over
10. Ball and Chain

Farewell Song – 1982

1. Tell Mama
2. Magic Of Love
3. Misery ‘N
4. One Night Stand
5. Harry
6. Raise Your Hand
7. Farewell Song
8. Medley: Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers9. Catch Me Daddy

Live at Woodstock: August 19, 1969 (1999)

1. Raise Your Hand
2. As Good As You’ve Been to This World
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)6. Kozmic Blues
7. I Can’t Turn You Loose
8. Work Me, Lord
9. Piece of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain

Greatest Hits (2000)

1. Summertime
2. Cry Baby
3. Piece of My Heart
4. Try
5. Me and Bobby McGee
6. Down on Me
7. Mercedes Benz
8. A Woman Left Lonely
9. Move Over
10. Ball and Chain
11. Bye, Bye Baby
12. Half Moon
13. My Baby
14. Buried Alive in the Blues
15. Trust Me
16. Get It While You Can
17. Little Girl Blues
18. Time
19. My Own Tears
20. Come Back

Blow All My Blues Away (1962/1970) 9 CD’s

CD 1 – The Early Years 1962-1963

John Riley’s Home, Austin, Texas 1962

1. What Good Can Drinkin Do

Threadgill’s Bar, Austin, Texas 1962

2. CC Rider
3. San Francisco Bay Blues
4. Wining Boy Blues
5. Careless Love
6. I’ll Drown In My Own Tears

San Jose Coffeeshop w/Jorma Kaukonen & Steve Mann 11/62

7. Honky Tonk Angel
8. Empty Pillow On My Bed

Grant Ave. Coffeehouse, late 1962 or early 1963

9. Gospel Ship
10. Stealing
11. Leaving This Morning
12. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
13. Careless Love
14. Bourgeois Blues
15. Black Mountain Blues, Austin, Texas Reel #1: 1963
16. Trouble In Mind
17. What Good Can Drinking Do
18. Silver Threads & Golden Needles
19. Mississippi River
20. Stealing
21. No Reason For Living, Austin, Texas Reel #2: 1964
22. Leaving This Morning
23. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
24. CC Rider
25. San Francisco Bay Blues
26. Wining Boy Blues
27. Careless Love
28. I´ll Drown My Own Tears

CD 2 – The Middle Years 1964-1968

“The Typewriter Tape” w/Jorma Kaukonen & Margaretta Kaukonen (typewriter)
San Jose, CA 25 June 1964 Jorma’s Mother’s House

1. Typewriter Talk
2. Trouble In Mind
3. Kansas City Blues
4. Hesitation Blues
5. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
6. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
7. Long Black Train Blues

San Francisco 1965 w/Dick Oxtrot Jazz Band

8. Black Mountain Blues
9. Walk Right In
10. River Jordan
11. Mary Jane

Janis & Big Brother & The Holding Company Sessions 1967-68
Mainstream LP Session Outtakes with Big Brother & The Holding Co.

12. Call On Me (1967)
13. Bye, Bye Baby(1967)

Cheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes w/Big Brother & The Holding Co

14. Its A Deal (03/19/68)
15. Easy Once You Know How (03/19/68)
16. Roadblock (03/25/68)
17. Flower In The Sun (03/25/68)
18. Misery’n (03/25/68)
19. Catch Me Daddy (03/25/68)
20. Farewell Song (03/25/68)
21. Summertime (03/28/68)

CD 3 – The Late Years 1968-1970

Cheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes cont.

1. Misery’n (04/01/68)
2. Catch Me Daddy (04/01/68)
3.Harry (06/12/68)

The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI 01/02 MAR 1968

4. Magic Of Love
5. Down On Me
6. Piece Of My Heart

Amsterdam 01 APR 1969 w/The Kozmic Blues Band

7. Maybe
8. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
9. Ball And Chain

Kozmic Blues Outtakes & Demos – June & July 1969

10. Dear Landlord (outtake)
11. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out (Demo)
12. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Demo)
13. Let’s Don’t Quit (Demo)
14. Get It While You Can #1 (Demo)
15. Get It While You Can #2 (inc.) (Demo)

3/28/70 Studio Session Outtakes with The Butterfield Blues Band

16. One Night Stand (1) Outtake
17. One Night Stand (2) Outtake

“The Dick Cavett Show” ABC-TV 25 JUN 1970

18. Get It While You Can

CD 4 – Live Big Brother

California Hall, San Francisco, CA 12 FEB 1967 w/Big Brother & The Holding Co.

1. Call On Me
2. Combination Of The Two
3. Blow My Mind
4. Down On Me
5. All Is Loneliness/Drum Solo
6. Road Block
7. Light Is Faster Than Sound
8. Bye Bye Baby
9. Goin’ To Brownsville
10. Ball And Chain
11. I Know You Rider

CD 5 – Early Janis

Studio (unknown, from acetate) backed by jazz band, date? early

1. Black Mountain
2. Careless Love

San Francisco, CA, unknown venue, Fall 1962

3. Gospel Ship
4. Stealin’
5. Leavin’ This Mornin’
6. Daddy Daddy Daddy
7. ?
. Careless Love
9. Bourgeoise Blues
10. Black Mountain

Folk Theater, San Jose, CA DEC 1962 with Steve Talbot

11. Honky Tonk Angel
12. Empty Pillow
13. Red Mountain Burgundy
14. ?? unknown title
15. Mary Jane

KPFA Studios, San Francisco, CA 18 JAN 1963 with Larry Hanks, Roger Perkins & host Gert Cherito

16. Black Mountain
17. Columbus Stockade

Jorma Kaukonen’s House, San Jose, CA, probably 1964 with Steve Mann

18. Winin’ Boy Blues
19. Trouble in Mind

CD 6 – Live Big Brother Parte 2

Big Brother & The Holding Co. Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 23 JUN 1968
(from low gen. 1/2 track reel)

1. (cuts in) Combination of the 2 ->
2. I Need A Man To Love
3. It’s Just History
4. Light Is Faster Than Sound
5. Summertime
6. Mr. Natural (Cuts)

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 1968 (FM)

7. Bye Bye Baby

Women is Losers

9. All is Loneliness
10. Call On Me
11. Ball & Chain

CD 7 – Live 1963 – 1968

01. So Sade To Be Allone (1965)
02. San Francisco Blues (1963)
03. Appley Of My Eye
04. 219 Train
05. Codine
06. Down & Out
07. Turtle Blues
08. I Ain^t Got A Worry
09. Brownsville (1965)
10. Catch Me Daddy
11. Piece Of My Heart (1968)
12. Down On Me (1966)
13. Summertime
14. I Need A Man To Love
15. Chat With Don Adams (1968)
16. Combination Of The Two
17. Farewell Song (1968)

CD 8

01. Piece Of My Heart
02. Summertime
03. Coo Coo
04. Combination Of The Two
05. Ball & Chain
06. Down On Me
07. Piece Of My Heart (Reprice August 68)
08. Interview
09. Piece Of My Heart (1967)
10. Summertime
11. Me
12. Raise Your Hand
13. Work Me Lord (Swedish TV,April 1969)
14. Stay With Me
15. Walk Right (Winterland,San Francisco 04/21/68)

CD 9

01. Dick Cavett Introduction
02. To Love Somebody
03. Interview (July 1969)
04. Little Girl Blue
05. Raise Your Hand (With Tom Jones,December 1969)
06. Kozmic Blues
07. Ego Blues (With Johnny Winter)
08. Help Me Baby (With Johnny Winter)
09. One Night Stand (With Paul Butterfield Band,March 1970)
10. Mercedes Benz
11. Try
12. My Baby (Final Concert,Harvard Stadium August 1970)
13. My Baby (March 1970)
14. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down (07/10/70)