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Janis Joplin - Janis (1971)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. What Good Can Drinkin' Do 2:45
  2. Trouble In Mind 3:03
  3. Hesitation Blues 4:05
  4. Easy Rider 2:24
  5. Down On Me 2:07
  6. The Last Time 2:17
  7. All Is Loneliness 2:19
  8. Call On Me 3:38
  9. Women Is Losers 5:08
  10. Intruder 2:32
  11. Light Is Faster Than Sound 2:32
  12. Bye, Bye Baby 2:40
  13. Farewell Song 4:24
  14. Flower In The Sun 3:13
  15. Misery'n 4:10
  16. Road Block 6:13
  17. Ball And Chain 8:08
CD2
  1. Combination of the Two 5:52
  2. I Need A Man To Love 4:50
  3. Piece of My Heart 4:25
  4. Turtle Blues 4:27
  5. Oh, Sweet Mary 4:14
  6. Catch Me Daddy 4:53
  7. Summertime 4:05
  8. Kozmic Blues 4:21
  9. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) 3:55
  10. One Good Man 4:07
  11. Dear Landlord 2:31
  12. To Love Somebody 5:17
  13. As Good As You've Been To This World 5:24
  14. Little Girl Blue 3:48
  15. Work Me, Lord 6:36
  16. Raise Your Hand 2:17
  17. Maybe 4:06
CD3
  1. Me And Bobby McGee 4:49
  2. One Night Stand 3:10
  3. Tell Mama 5:49
  4. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) 8:17
  5. Cry Baby
  6. Move Over 3:43
  7. A Woman Left Lonely 3:30
  8. Half Moon 3:54
  9. Happy Birthday, John (Happy Trails) 1:11
  10. My Baby 3:46
  11. Mercedes Benz 2:14
  12. Trust Me 3:18
  13. Get It While You Can 3:25
  14. Me And Bobby McGee 4:30

Notes

This three-CD box set is the most thorough and valuable retrospective of Janis Joplin's career. Besides including all of her most essential recordings with and without Big Brother & the Holding Company, this 49-song package features quite a few enticing rarities; 18 of the tracks were previously unissued. These include a 1962 home recording of the Joplin original "What Good Can Drinkin' Do," which marked the first time her singing was captured on tape; a pair of acoustic blues tunes from 1965 with backup guitar by future Jefferson Airplane star Jorma Kaukonen, an acoustic demo of "Me and Bobby McGee," a 1970 birthday song for John Lennon, and live performances from her appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1969. The real showstopper is the previously unissued, eight-minute version of "Ball and Chain" from Big Brother's first set at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival (the cut on the Monterey Pop box set is from their second set). The more forgettable tracks from her solo albums are wisely excised, as are the Big Brother songs which did not feature her vocals. This is the rare multidisc set of a major artist which manages to cover all the official milestones and present a bounty of worthwhile rarities at the same time.