In Concert - album 1972

In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972 after Joplin's death as a double-LP. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, recorded at various locations in 1968 and 1970, and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band.
Side A
1. "Down On Me" – 3:05
Recorded March 2, 1968, at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI
2. "Bye, Bye Baby" – 4:29
Recorded April 12, 1968, at Winterland, San Francisco, CA
3. "All Is Loneliness" – 5:44
Recorded April 4, 1970, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
4. "Piece Of My Heart" – 4:19
Recorded March 2, 1968, at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI

Side B
1. "Road Block" – 2:53
2. "Flower In The Sun" – 3:07
3. "Summertime" – 4:31
1-3 recorded June 23, 1968, The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
4. "Ego Rock" – 8:32
Recorded April 4, 1970, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Side C
1. "Half Moon" – 4:36
2. "Kozmic Blues" – 6:05
3. "Move Over" – 5:09

Side D
1. "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)" – 8:13
2. "Get It While You Can" – 7:04
3. "Ball And Chain" – 9:15
The tracks on the second LP were recorded during the Canadian Festival Express concert tour in mid-1970. The first two songs on Side C are from Toronto, Ontario, on June 28, 1970. The rest were recorded in Calgary, Alberta, on July 4, 1970

Janis Joplin - vocals
Big Brother & The Holding Company:
James Gurley - Guitar
Sam Andrew - Guitar
Peter Albin - Bass
Dave Getz - Drums
Full Tilt Boogie Band:
John Till - Guitar
Richard Bell - Piano
Ken Pearson - Organ
Brad Campbell - Bass
Clark Pierson - Drums

Pearl - album 1971

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.
Track listing:
"Move Over" (Janis Joplin) - 3:43
"Cry Baby" (Jerry Ragovoy, Sam Bell) - 3:58
"A Woman Left Lonely" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) - 3:29
"Half Moon" (John Hall, Johanna Hall) - 3:53
"Buried Alive in the Blues" (Nick Gravenites) - 2:29
"My Baby" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) - 3:26
"Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) - 4:33
"Mercedes Benz" (Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure) - 1:48
"Trust Me" (Bobby Womack) - 3:17
"Get It While You Can" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) - 3:27

1999 remastered edition bonus tracks :
"Tell Mama" (Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Wilbur Terrell) - 6:32
"Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:50
"Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (Jerry Ragovoy, Chip Taylor) - 6:52
"Cry Baby" (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns) - 6:29

Career: Full Tilt Boogie Band

In February 1970, Joplin traveled to Brazil, where she stopped her drug and alcohol use. She was accompanied on vacation there by her friend Linda Gravenites, who had designed the singer's stage costumes from 1966 to 1969. Joplin was romanced by an American schoolteacher named David (George) Niehaus, who was traveling around the world. They were photographed by the press at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Gravenites also took photographs of the two during their Brazilian vacation and they appeared to be a "carefree, happy, healthy young couple" having a great time.

Joplin began using heroin again when she returned to the United States. Her relationship with Niehaus soon ended because of the drugs, her relationship with Peggy Caserta and refusal to take some time off work and travel the world with him. Around this time she formed her new band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band. The band was composed mostly of young Canadian musicians and featured an organ, but no horn section. Joplin took a more active role in putting together the Full Tilt Boogie Band than she did with her prior group. She was quoted as saying, "It's my band. Finally it's my band!"

The Full Tilt Boogie Band began touring in May 1970. Joplin remained quite happy with her new group, which received mostly positive feedback from both her fans and the critics. Prior to beginning a summer tour with Full Tilt Boogie, she performed in a reunion with Big Brother at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on April 4, 1970. Recordings from this concert were included in an in-concert album released posthumously in 1972. She again appeared with Big Brother on April 12 at Winterland where she and Big Brother were reported to be in excellent form. By the time she began touring with Full Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her drinking increased.

From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt joined the all-star Festival Express tour through Canada, performing alongside the Grateful Dead, Delaney and Bonnie, Rick Danko and The Band, Eric Andersen and Ian and Sylvia. They played concerts in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. Footage of her performance of the song "Tell Mama" in Calgary became an MTV video in the 1980s and was included on the 1982 Farewell Song album. The audio of other Festival Express performances were included on that 1972 Joplin In Concert album. Video of the performances was included on the Festival Express DVD.

In the "Tell Mama" video shown on MTV in the 1980s, Joplin wore a psychedelically colored loose-fitting costume and feathers in her hair. This was her standard stage costume in the spring and summer of 1970. She chose the new costumes after her friend and designer, Linda Gravenites (whom Joplin had praised in the May 1968 issue of Vogue), cut ties with Joplin shortly after their return from Brazil, due largely to Joplin's continued use of heroin.

During the Festival Express tour, Joplin was accompanied by Rolling Stone writer David Dalton, who would later write several articles and a book on Joplin. She told Dalton:

"I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything...It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the audience with you, it's a oneness you feel."