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Janis Joplin - Love, Janis Audio CD

A fair review of the Janis Joplin "Love, Janis" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Janis Joplin reviews here, or go back to the Janis Joplin tabs.

Janis Joplin Band: Janis Joplin
Title: Love, Janis
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Release Date: 2001-05-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: What Good Can Drinkin' Do 2: (I bring the news) 3: Down On Me 4: (I'm somebody important) 5: Women Is Losers 6: (Our first record is finally out) 7: Piece Of My Heart 8: (I'm sorry, sorry) 9: (A happening) 10: Summertime 11: (He's A Beatle, Mother) 12: Ball And Chain 13: (I may jut be a star someday) 14: A Woman Left Lonely 15: (Twenty-Five) 16: Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) 17: (Did I tell you about my reviews?) 18: Little Girl Blue 19: (Twenty-Seven) 20: Me And Bobby McGee 21: Mercedes Benz 22: The Last Letter: (Really gusin' through) 23: Get It While You Can

Try Just a Little Bit Harder....
Janis is my all time favorite and I think the women rockers of today owe her much gratitude for she is the true original. The first album I bought in my life was Pearl, in 1972 when I was 13, and the first CD I bought was Pearl. I can live without the dramatization of Janis's letters home that are read between each song. I don't know that she sounded like that and just don't care. The songs are on other sources so if you're a Janis fan you really don't need this. I just wish they would make a CD of the 'Big Brother and the Holding Co. - featuring Janis Joiplin' album - even if it sounded like the album sounds - so what. At least it is Janis. That letter reader on the other hand.


WHAT?
hi, just short note. . i bouht this cd. i must say that collection of the song is good. BUT why someone else is reading janises letters? oh my god. its digusting. if they want to let people know, what janis wrote to her family, they can print it into booklet. i really do not like idea where you are listening to song of janis joplin and in next track, there is a woman changing voice, pretending that shes janis. . . . shame on you good luck Columbia.


Piece of Janis' heart
The "readings" of Janis' letters to her family are so well done that I had to keep reminding myself that they were being done by an actress. What a great CD - I played it over and over again - just the way I used to play Janis' LPs when I was a teenager. So generous of Janis' family to share these letters with us and let us once again hear her passion, her crackling humor, and her masked pain. The world is a duller place without Janis - this CD brings back a little of her heart and soul.


A Different Janis
While there are no live performances, the selection of songs from her studio CD's is excellent. Much better CD than Janis' Greatest Hits collection. However, for me, a fanatical Janis fan, what makes this CD worthwhile is Janis' letters. These letters show a side of Janis not always in line with her public image of 60's icon. They remind us of the human being behind the legend.


Wow

Those who have seen the play (based on the book) have experienced the very poignant connection between Janis's letters home to her family and Janis' music. The music, of course, we know it and and love it. This cd of Janis' music (by Janis) interspersed with those letter excerpts read (by actress Catheine Curtin) is illuminating, touching, thoughtful, funny. It makes Janis so real, man, as we know she was, a real person, not some "star" or "legend. " This cd is done with the cooperation of Laura and Michael Joplin, brother and sister, so the pictures included are very new to at least this member of the public. The liner notes are extensive and fascinating. Very seldom do you get a chance to "hear" the person alongside the "artist" and in 'Love, Janis' we have that rare and wonderful opportunity, very well done.


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