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Big Brother & the Holding Company

~ Janis Joplin

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Audio CD (14 Jul 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sony Budget
ASIN: B000025ABJ
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Six months before becoming an overnight sensation followinga blistering set at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, Big Brother was an unknown group from San Francisco playing a month-long Chicago club engagement. The band, made up of bassist Peter Albin, drummer David Getz, and guitarists James Gurleyand Sam Andrew, was completed when the quartet was introduced to singer Janis Joplin by mutual friend Chet Helms.
When their gig was cut short, Big Brother avoided returning toCalifornia when Bob Shad signed the group to Mainstream Records, his small, struggling jazz label. The three-day recording session in December 1966 resulted in a set of mostly original songs, with the exception of New York City street musician Moondog's "All Is Loneliness" and a more secular arrangement of the gospel standard "Down on Me". Despite Joplin's fiery singing style, Big Brother was still the kind of democracy in which Joplin shared vocals with Sam Andrew on the trippy "Light Is Faster Than Sound" and the more soulful duet "Call on Me". But most of this record featured Joplin reaching back and channeling her hero Big Maybelle on songs like the brassy "Women Is Losers" and the no-nonsense "Intruder".

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3.0 out of 5 stars SEEDS OF GENIUS, 30 Jul 2002

By	Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

Don't expect Big Brother's acid-rock roar. This is completely unlike their classic Cheap Thrills, with a much thinner sound but still an interesting mixture of blues, folk-rock, and psychedelic rock. I like Janis' vocals on Call On Me although she doesn't sound quite as desperate as usual; my other favorites include the bluesy, droning "All Is Loneliness" where Joplin sounds like nowhere else (but it's too short!), and "Women Is Losers" where she demonstrates the seeds of her genius that would fully flower on albums like Kozmic Blues and Pearl. It's a solid rock album, but not as memorable as "Cheap Thrills". I think the band were still finding their feet here. Only for Joplin/Big Brother completists.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Check it Out!, 7 Sep 2004

By	Elizabeth H. "red_witche" (Bournemouth) - See all my reviews

This is Janis at her earliest and she rocks! Although the material on this album is not so fraught as her later works (Ball and Chain being the classic in my view), it makes great and relaxing listening, bluesy yet mellow. In my view this album is a appetiser of what was to later come from Janis, you hear this and you know she was going to go somewhere from there. Sad that her later masterpieces were so obviously tied in with her fraught personal life and her impending death, but the same can be said of most great rock and roll heroes.
Janis lives!

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Original Janis album - complete with the indispensible Big Bro & the Holding Co., 25 Feb 2007

By	Moz "The Madhatter" (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews

Janis was complete when she was playing with Big Brother, whatever the tensions and insecurities. It is a marriage of mutual dependance and both contribute enormously to the relationship. The later albums, Kozmic Blues and Pearl, without Big Bro, lack this passion, naivety, excitement and raw energy. This first tentative album does not have the power of Cheap Thrills but it is beautiful none-the-less. It's embryonic, not just for Janis but of the whole San Fransisco mid-sixties music scene. This is an album at the birth of psychedelic rock. 'Light is (indeed) Faster than Sound'. Then you have 'Coo Coo' and 'All is Loneliness' - only in the summer of love could these tracks blossom.

Did I say naive? This is naive in spades and gains much from being rushed, fresh and under produced. 'Down on Me', 'Call on Me' and 'Women is Losers' are archetypal Janis tracks. For the techies and pefectionists this album isn't. It's flawed, innocent, tinny some say and recorded in a hurry, straight off the street, to satisfy the band's live audiences craving for a record of their show. For me this is a landmark, coming of age album and one that fits perfectly into its unique niche in rock history. Rest your Soul Janis - this was your sanctuary if only you could have realised it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Raw, explosive -- best of the San Francisco sound
Simply titled Big Brother & The Holding Company (1967), the album is Janis's one attempt to be part of a group ensemble instead of the "star. Read more

Published on 3 Jun 2007 by Charles - Music Lover

3.0 out of 5 stars Primitive, but interesting...
This is a low budget recording...and it sounds like it! What you don't get here, which some JJ/BB heads might be used to, is extended jamming and wild vocals. Read more

Published on 26 Mar 2007 by Richard Ely

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