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Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection

Janis Joplin / Big Brother & The Holding Company

Initial release : 1999

Columbia/Legacy 65937

Box set that collects together both Janis Joplin solo albums, both albums she made with Big Brother and a bonus EP of previously unreleased material. The albums include bonus tracks and are the same as those re-released separately in 1999.

Tracks

CD 1 (Big Brother And The Holding Company);

  • Bye, Bye Baby (Powell St. John)
  • Easy Rider (Gurley)
  • Intruder (Joplin)
  • Light Is Faster than Sound (Albin)
  • Call on Me (Andrew)
  • Women Is Losers (Joplin)
  • Blindman (Albin / Andrew / Getz / Gurley / Joplin)
  • Down on Me (Traditional)
  • Caterpillar (Albin)
  • All Is Loneliness (Moondog)
  • Coo Coo (Albin)
  • The Last Time (Joplin)
  • Call on Me (Andrew)
  • Bye Bye Baby (St. John)
CD 2 (Cheap Thrills);
  • Combination of the Two (Andrew)
  • I Need a Man to Love (Joplin / Andrew)
  • Summertime (Heyward / Gershwin)
  • Piece of My Heart (Ragovoy / Berns)
  • Turtle Blues (Joplin)
  • Oh, Sweet Mary (Joplin)
  • Ball and Chain (Thornton)
  • Road Block (Albin/Joplin)
  • Flower in the Sun (Andrew)
  • Catch Me Daddy (Albin/Andrew/Getz/Gurley/Joplin)
  • Magic of Love (Spoelstra)
CD 3 (Kosmic Blues);
  • Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) (Ragavoy/Taylor)
  • Maybe (Barrett)
  • One Good Man (Joplin)
  • As Good as You've Been to This World (Gravenites)
  • To Love Somebody (Gibb/Gibb)
  • Kozmic Blues (Joplin/Mekler)
  • Little Girl Blue (Hart/Rodger)
  • Work Me, Lord (Gravenites)
  • Dear Landlord (studio recording June 1969) (Dylan)
  • Summertime (live at Woodstock) (Gershwin/Heyward)
  • Piece of My Heart (live at Woodstock) (Berns/Ragavoy)
CD 4 (Pearl);
  • Move Over (Joplin)
  • Cry Baby (Meade/Russell)
  • A Woman Left Lonely (Oldham/Penn)
  • Half Moon (Hall)
  • Buried Alive in the Blues (Gravenites)
  • My Baby (Ragavoy/Shuman)
  • Me and Bobby McGee (Foster/Kristofferson)
  • Mercedes Benz (Joplin/McClure)
  • Trust Me (Womack)
  • Get It While You Can (Ragavoy/Shuman)
  • Tell Mama (Carter/Daniel/Terrell)
  • Little Girl Blue (Hart/Rodgers)
  • Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) (Ragavoy/Taylor)
  • Cry Baby (Berns/Ragavoy)
CD 5 (Bonus EP);
  • It's a Deal (Albin/Andrew/Getz/Gurley/Joplin)
  • Easy Once You Know How (Albin/Andrew/Gertz/Gurley/Joplin)
  • Maybe (Barrett)
  • Raise Your Hand (Cropper/Floyd/Isbell)
  • Bo Diddley (McDaniel)
Musicians

On CD 1 (Big Brother And The Holding Company);

  • Peter Albin - bass
  • Sam Andrew - guitar
  • David Getz - drums
  • James Gurley - guitar
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
On CD 2 (Cheap Thrills);
  • Peter Albin - bass
  • Sam Andrew - guitar
  • David Getz - drums
  • James Gurley - guitar
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • John Simon - piano
On CD 3 (Kosmic Blues);
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • Sam Andrew - guitar, background vocals
  • Richard Kermode - organ
  • Gabriel Mekler - organ
  • Brad Campbell - bass
  • Maury Baker - drums
  • Louie Castille - drums
  • Snooky Flowers - baritone saxophone, background vocals
  • Terry Clements - tenor saxophone
  • Luis Gasca - trumpet
On CD 4 (Pearl);
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • Brad Campbell - bass
  • Clark Pierson - drums
  • Ken Pearson - organ
  • John Till - guitar
  • Richard Bell - piano
  • Sandra Crouch - tambourine
  • Bobbie Hall - bongos, conga
  • Bobby Womack - guitar (Trust Me)
  • Pearl - guitar (Me & Bobby McGee)
  • Pearl, Full Tilt Boogie, Vince Mitchell, Phil Badella, John Cook - Chorus voices
Related releases

The albums collected in this set were originally released as;

The sources for the bonus EP tracks are as follows;
  • It's a Deal and Easy Once You Know How - Cheap Thrills Outtakes
  • Maybe - live recording from April 1969
  • Raise Your Hand - live recording from October 1969
  • Bo Diddley - live recording from October 1969
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