Pearl

Pearl is an album by Janis Joplin, released on February 1, 1971—four months after her death from a heroin overdose. It is her fourth album and the first album she recorded with Full Tilt Boogie. The album has a more polished feel than the albums she recorded with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band due to the expertise of producer Paul A. Rothchild and her new backing musicians. Rothchild was best known as the producer o... more

Pearl is an album by Janis Joplin, released on February 1, 1971—four months after her death from a heroin overdose. It is her fourth album and the first album she recorded with Full Tilt Boogie. The album has a more polished feel than the albums she recorded with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band due to the expertise of producer Paul A. Rothchild and her new backing musicians. Rothchild was best known as the producer of The Doors, and worked well with Joplin. Together they were able to craft an album that showcased her extraordinary vocal talents. The Full Tilt Boogie were the musicians who accompanied her on the famous Festival Express in the summer of 1970, and many of the songs on this album were introduced on the concert stage in Canada. Pearl features the hits "Me and Bobby McGee," (commercially released with "Half Moon", another album cut, on the flipside) written by Kris Kristofferson (her lover at the time) and Fred Foster, and "Move Over," which... less