Artist: Janis Joplin
Title Of Album: Blow All My Blues Away 1962-1970
Year Of Release: 200?
Country: USA
Genre: Blues-Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps CBR
Total Time: 10 h 04 min 19 sec
Total Size: 1 Gb 432 Mb (+5%) | Scans

This set of archival recordings lets us witness the formation of arguably the most powerful and expressive voice in rock history. From the earliest known performances in the small bars of Texas to the first sessions with Big Brother to her mesmerizing live shows, Janis never left behind her raw roots. She drew upon them to impel emotional performances as if by exposing her pain she gained power over her past and transformed it into a gift. In these newly sourced pearls, we can hear as never before the birth and fast burning flame of Janis Joplin.

Included are outtakes and unreleased songs from the 1968 "Cheap Thrills" studio sessions, demos for the 1969 Kozmic Blues album and vast improvements on all existing vintage (1962-65) live recordings. The vintage recordings, in particular, are wonderful and although we had some of this material from the long out of print "Janis" movie soundtrack vinyl release, this collection has 39 (!) tracks recorded between 1962-65 including the ubiquitous "Typewriter Tapes" made by Jorma. The final CD finally unchains the urgent expression and lets it be heard in a complete Big Brother concert from 1967. Sit down by your window, put this set on, and blow all your blues away.

Disc 1: The Early Years 1962-63

John Riley's Home, Austin, Texas 1962

1. What Good Can Drinkin Do

Threadgill's Bar, Austin, Texas 1962

2. CC Rider
3. San Francisco Bay Blues
4. Wining Boy Blues
5. Careless Love
6. I'll Drown In My Own Tears

San Jose Coffeeshop w/Jorma Kaukonen & Steve Mann 11/62

7. Honky Tonk Angel
8. Empty Pillow On My Bed

Grant Ave. Coffeehouse, late 1962 or early 1963

9. Gospel Ship
10. Stealing
11. Leaving This Morning
12. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
13. Careless Love
14. Bourgeois Blues
15. Black Mountain Blues, Austin, Texas Reel #1: 1963
16. Trouble In Mind
17. What Good Can Drinking Do
18. Silver Threads & Golden Needles
19. Mississippi River
20. Stealing
21. No Reason For Living, Austin, Texas Reel #2: 1964
22. I'll Drown In My Own Tears
23. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
24. Careless Love
25. San Francisco Bay Blues
26. Wining Boy Blues
27. CC Rider
28. Leaving This Morning

Disc 2: The Middle Years 1964-68

"The Typewriter Tape" w/Jorma Kaukonen & Margaretta Kaukonen (typewriter)
San Jose, CA 25 June 1964 Jorma's Mother's House

1. Typewriter Talk
2. Trouble In Mind
3. Kansas City Blues
4. Hesitation Blues
5. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
6. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
7. Long Black Train Blues

San Francisco 1965 w/Dick Oxtrot Jazz Band

8. Black Mountain Blues
9. Walk Right In
10. River Jordan
11. Mary Jane

Janis & Big Brother & The Holding Company Sessions 1967-68

Mainstream LP Session Outtakes with Big Brother & The Holding Co.

12. (1967) Call On Me
13. (1967) Bye, Bye Baby

Cheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes w/Big Brother & The Holding Co.

14. (03/19/68) Its A Deal
15. (03/19/68) Easy Once You Know How
16. (03/25/68) Roadblock
17. (03/25/68) Flower In The Sun
18. (03/25/68) Misery'n
19. (03/25/68) Catch Me Daddy
20. (03/25/68) Farewell Song
21. (03/28/68) Summertime

Disc 3: The Late Years 1968-70

Cheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes cont.

1. (04/01/68) Misery'n
2. (04/01/68) Catch Me Daddy
3. (06/12/68) Harry

The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI 01/02 MAR 1968

4. Magic Of Love
5. Down On Me
6. Piece Of My Heart

Amsterdam 01 APR 1969 w/The Kozmic Blues Band

7. Maybe
8. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
9. Ball And Chain

Kozmic Blues Outtakes & Demos - June & July 1969

10. Dear Landlord (outtake)
11. Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out (Demo)
12. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Demo)
13. Let's Don't Quit (Demo)
14. Get It While You Can #1 (Demo)
15. Get It While You Can #2 (inc.) (Demo)

3/28/70 Studio Session Outtakes with The Butterfield Blues Band

16. One Night Stand (1) Outtake
17. One Night Stand (2) Outtake

"The Dick Cavett Show" ABC-TV 25 JUN 1970

18. Get It While You Can

Disc 4: Live Big Brother

California Hall, San Francisco, CA 12 FEB 1967 w/Big Brother & The Holding Co.

1. Call On Me
2. Combination Of The Two
3. Blow My Mind
4. Down On Me
5. All Is Loneliness/Drum Solo
6. Road Block
7. Light Is Faster Than Sound
8. Bye Bye Baby
9. Goin' To Brownsville
10. Ball And Chain
11. I Know You Rider

Disc 5: Early Janis

Studio (unknown, from acetate) backed by jazz band, date? early

1) Black Mountain
2) Careless Love

San Francisco, CA, unknown venue, Fall 1962

3) Gospel Ship
4) Stealin'
5) Leavin' This Mornin'
6) Daddy Daddy Daddy
7) <>
8) Careless Love
9) Bourgeoise Blues
10) Black Mountain

Folk Theater, San Jose, CA DEC 1962 with Steve Talbot

11) Honky Tonk Angel
12) Empty Pillow
13) Red Mountain Burgundy
14) ?? unknown title
15) Mary Jane

KPFA Studios, San Francisco, CA 18 JAN 1963 with Larry Hanks, Roger Perkins & host Gert Cherito

16) Black Mountain
17) Columbus Stockade

Jorma Kaukonen's House, San Jose, CA, probably 1964 with Steve Mann

18) Winin' Boy Blues
19) Trouble in Mind

Disk 6: Live Big Brother

Big Brother & The Holding Co. Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 23 JUN 1968
(from low gen. 1/2 track reel)

1) (cuts in) Combination of the 2 ->
2) I Need A Man To Love
3) It's Just History
4) Light Is Faster Than Sound
5) Summertime
6) Mr. Natural (cuts)

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 1968 (FM)

7) Bye Bye Baby
8) Women is Losers
9) All is Loneliness
10) Call On Me
11) Ball & Chain

Disc 7: Live 1963 – 1968

01. So Sade To Be Allone (1965)
02. San Francisco Blues (1963)
03. Appley Of My Eye
04. 219 Train
05. Codine
06. Down & Out
07. Turtle Blues
08. I Ain^t Got A Worry
09. Brownsville (1965)
10. Catch Me Daddy
11. Piece Of My Heart (1968)
12. Down On Me (1966)
13. Summertime
14. I Need A Man To Love
15. Chat With Don Adams (1968)
16. Combination Of The Two
17. Farewell Song (1968)

Disc 8

01. Piece Of My Heart
02. Summertime
03. Coo Coo
04. Combination Of The Two
05. Ball & Chain
06. Down On Me
07. Piece Of My Heart (Reprice August 68)
08. Interview
09. Piece Of My Heart (1967)
10. Summertime
11. Me
12. Raise Your Hand
13. Work Me Lord (Swedish TV,April 1969)
14. Stay With Me
15. Walk Right (Winterland,San Francisco 04/21/68)

Disc 9

01. Dick Cavett Introduction
02. To Love Somebody
03. Interview (July 1969)
04. Little Girl Blue
05. Raise Your Hand (With Tom Jones,December 1969)
06. Kozmic Blues
07. Ego Blues (With Johnny Winter)
08. Help Me Baby (With Johnny Winter)
09. One Night Stand (With Paul Butterfield Band,March 1970)
10. Mercedes Benz
11. Try
12. My Baby (Final Concert,Harvard Stadium August 1970)
13. My Baby (March 1970)
14. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down (07/10/70)