Janis Joplin - Pearl (180 Gram Vinyl) - Vinyl 09/05/2025 Released: 3/15/19

Released: 3/15/19

tracks like "Willow Weep for Me" and "Little Girl Blue" are drawn with such virtuosic melancholy by Krall as to be far and away some of the best ballads she's put to record

Features collaborations with Aimee Mann and Rodney Crowell

and body plastic delivered with an undercurrent of disdain

appearing too late in the folk revival to attract much attention -- Bob Dylan was already taking that audience to new places by adding electric instruments to his sound

Janis Joplin - Pearl (180 Gram Vinyl) - Vinyl 09/05/2025 Released: 3/15/192 LPs on 1 CD: GOLDEN HIGHLIGHTS (1988) PEARL (1970). Janis Joplin's PEARL, from 1971, is a bluesy, organ drenched benediction for the flower child sound of the free and easy 60's. It is also one of great singer's most consistent and representative efforts. Gone are the ear shattering sonics of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Full Tilt Boogie, the backing band here, steps in to offer a degree of polish and control that frames Joplin's vocals