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- Summary: The Pearl Sessions includes not only the original final studio album from the singer-songwriter but also outtakes, demos, and studio banter between Janis, the Full-Tilt Boogie Band and her producer, Paul A. Rothchild.
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- Record Label: Sony Legacy
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll
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May 15, 2012The Pearl Sessions with newly found studio outtakes, live performances and chatter rarities, the tumult of its original 1971 (three months after her passing) comes through loud and clear.
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May 15, 2012Hardcore Joplin fans and historians have an excellent retrospective package which, while illuminating the process of the creation of Pearl, doesn't replace it in the canon.
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May 15, 2012The extra tracks are fun, but far from essential.
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May 15, 2012Suffice it to say that unless you simply need to own everything Janis touched, this package is of negligible value. Newcomers will be better served by the 2005 edition with its powerful concert material showing how Joplin and the scrappy Full Tilt reinterpreted her earlier work.
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Nov 16, 2013
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