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Janis Joplin: The Pearl Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Janis JoplinThe Pearl SessionsLegacy Records2010 Pearl was vocalist Janis Joplin's valedictory and most fully realized recording. She never lived to see it released, dying of a heroin overdose the October previous to the album's release on January 11, 1971. Sadly, the recording was made with Joplin's last, and most empathetic group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a quintet led by the singer. It was a tight and precise funk-soul combo, scaled ...
read moreJanis Joplin "The Pearl Sessions" Available Tuesday, April 17
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Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
LEGACY RECORDINGS COMMEMORATES JANIS JOPLIN'S BIRTHDAY WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PEARL SESSIONS DEFINITIVE TWO-DISC EDITION OF JANIS JOPLIN'S FAREWELL ALBUM MASTERPIECE DEBUTS NEWLY DISCOVERED STUDIO OUTTAKES, BANTER & RARITIES INCLUDING NINE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE TRACKS Janis JoplinThe Pearl SessionsAvailable Everywhere Tuesday, April 17, 2012 On the occasion of Janis Joplin's birthday (January 19), Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Pearl Sessions, a newly-curated definitive two-disc edition of Joplin's final studio album premiering, for the first time, ...
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Williams, Krauss, Tedeschi and More at Janis Joplin Tribute
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JamBase
LUCINDA WILLIAMS DEBUTS SONG AT ROCK HALL'S AMERICAN MUSIC MASTERS JOPLIN TRIBUTE
Lucinda Williams The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University celebrated Janis Joplin during the 14th annual American Music Masters series, entitled Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin, Sunday night to a near-capacity audience at the State Theater in Playhouse Square. The concert lineup consisted of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Roky Erickson, ...
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Rock Hall Will Honor Janis Joplin for 2009 American Music Masters Series
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Just Roots PR
Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin will take place in November The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University will celebrate Janis Joplin, one of rock and roll’s most passionate and influential artists during the 14th annual American Music Masters® series this November. For one week we will tell the story of this unforgettable artist during a program titled Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin. In her work ...
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