![]() “Cry Baby” might sound like a lament, but Janis isn’t the victim instead, she’s reaching out to comfort a man who’s had his heart broken by another. “Get It While You Can” is another song about the perils down the road live life to the fullest while you’re able, for you never know what lies ahead.īut most of the album is more optimistic in tone. “A Woman Left Lonely” falls into what some perceived as typical Joplin a woman-done-wrong lament. Of course, there were still songs along those lines on Pearl. Janis was eager to expand her range, so she wouldn’t always be pigeonholed as the raspy-voiced blues shouter. It was meant to be the start of a working relationship that would extend beyond one album. Pearl Certified RIAA Gold Record (Photo: Google) The band began recording demos in LA the following week. Asked where she saw herself in the future, Janis told him, “I want to be the greatest blues singer in the world,” and Paul was excited about the opportunity to help her achieve this goal. Paul came away impressed by her intelligence, and her desire to improve as a singer. After catching a show in San Diego in July, Paul agreed, and a follow up meeting with Janis sealed the deal. He’d later seen her in concert in 1969, after she’d left Big Brother, and been underwhelmed by her performance she seemed burned out, and not at all the singer he had once been so taken with.īut in the summer of 1970, Janis’ road manager, John Cooke, persuaded Paul to check her out with her new band things had improved, John assured him. Though tempted, Janis ultimately turned him down. Rothchild had wanted to sign Janis - and only Janis - in 1966, when she was still with San Francisco hippie band Big Brother & the Holding Company, planning to bring her to LA to join an R&B/soul group he was putting together. But for the band and producer, it was a far greater emotional accomplishment. It had been a great technological accomplishment. The album was completed in 10 days, and released in January 1971, quickly topping the charts. Janis had completed most of her of vocals, and if they couldn’t be matched with a suitable backing track, the musicians recorded a new one. On October 8, they all returned to the studio to finish the work they had started. Her musicians, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, and producer Paul Rothchild, were devastated. Janis Joplin Pearl, Columbia Records 1971 Work on the album wasn’t even completed when Joplin died, alone in her hotel room, of a heroin overdose in the early hours of October 4, 1970. ![]() Pearl was supposed to be Janis Joplin’s triumph. ![]()
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