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JANIS JOPLIN - PEARL 24-96 180g Vinyl Rip


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The greatest white blues singer of her time, Janis Joplin is without rival in plumbing the bottomless depths of loss. Indeed, her spine-tingling wails and moans are a kind of rapture of the deep -- no lyric about abandonment is too slight to warrant her bloodcurdling investment in it.

That intensity is everywhere evident on Pearl, the album on which the twenty-seven-year-old singer was working at the time of her death, in 1970, from a heroin overdose. Her new band, Full Tilt Boogie, cranks the volume when necessary ("Move Over") but never competes with or overwhelms her, as her previous combos, Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band, sometimes did.

Consequently, Joplin is fully able to go for emotional broke. Her version of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham's soul ballad "A Woman Left Lonely" is a harrowing journey along Desolation Row, while the strangled howl with which she opens Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy's "Cry Baby" sends a chilling signal of the ravages to come. "Get It While You Can," the devastating track that closes the album, crackles with desperation. It is a scarred survivor's advice to her sex: Love and pleasure must be seized whenever they offer themselves, though they are mere preludes to the pain that will surely follow.

Of course, Joplin was not a survivor, and that lends Pearl (her nickname for herself, chosen to match a female lover's tag of Ruby) a poignancy that is as undeniable now as it was upon its posthumous release, in 1971. Her humor on the self-mocking a cappella prayer "Mercedes Benz" (which was recorded in one take) includes this knowing barfly's request: "Prove that you love me/ And buy the next round." And her lovely rendition of Kris Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee" is her greatest studio recording -- its eloquent restraint all the more effective in communicating the song's heartbreak.

Kristofferson, who had been Joplin's lover not long before her death, cried when he heard her version of the song. "Did we do this?" he reportedly asked as he stood before her dead body. It's the question that caring survivors are always left with, and one that Pearl, in its frightening beauty, does little to resolve.

- Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 9/30/99.




SIDE A:

A1 Move Over
A2 Cry Baby
A3 A Woman Left Lonely
A4 Half Moon
A5 Buried Alive in the Blues

SIDE B:

B1 My Baby
B2 Me & Bobby McGee
B3 Mercedes Benz
B4 Trust Me
B5 Get it While You Can


Full Tilt Boogie Band: members/musicians

Janis Joplin
Brad Campbell
Clark Pierson
Ken Pearson
John Till
Richard Bell
Sandra Crouch
Bobbie Hall
Bobby Womack
Pearl

Special Thanks to

Nick Gravenites
Bobby Womack
Spooner Oldham
Bob Gordon
Eric Prestige
Vince Mitchell
Phil Badella


2007 SONY BMG
Made in the EU
Produced by Paul A. Rothchild
Engineer: Phil Macy


VINYL TRANSFER PROCESS :

Vinyl cleaning:
ClearAudio Matrix Record Cleaner
(static discharge with Zerostat 3 Milty "gun" before play)

Source:
Turntable > Nottingham Analogue Hyperspace
Cartridge > Decca Super Gold Moving Magnet

Electronics:
Phono > Bedini Q Series PreAmp
ADC > Edirol FA-66 Firewire Audio Interface

Computer - Software - Monitoring
MacPro 8-Core
Software > Adobe Audition CS 5.5, iZotope RXII Advanced
Monitoring > Sennheiser HD800 headphones (through Violectric VT200 headphone Amp)

All connections:
Vooodooo pure silver wire with Eichmann bullet plugs.

Recorded at 24bit 192kHz from a 180g Vinyl by TheZeitung. (June 2011)
Slightly declicked and dithered to 24-96 with iZotope RXII Advanced .






ENJOY !