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Big Brother & The Holding Company – Big Brother & The Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin (VG+/E) – LP, US 1970
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Big Brother & The Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin is an LP by Big Brother & The Holding Company from 1970 released on the Columbia Limited Edition label.
About this album
Big Brother & The Holding Company’s debut is a raw, formative San Francisco psychedelia record that bridges folk rock, blues rock and the city’s emerging acid-rock scene. Issued in 1967, it captures the group before Janis Joplin became the dominant public focus, with the band still sounding loose, rough-edged and exploratory. The album’s original material, including songs such as Down on Me and Call On Me, mixes garage-band bite with blues-derived urgency and youthful unease. More than a future-star showcase, it stands as an important document of the West Coast underground taking shape in real time.
Genre: Pop & Rock
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AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Label: Columbia Limited Edition – LE 10205Format: LP, Album, Reissue, StereoUnits: 1Country: USReleased: 1970Genre: Pop & RockStyle: Blues Rock, Folk RockA1 Bye Bye Baby
A2 Easy Rider
A3 Intruder
A4 Light Is Faster Than Sound
A5 Call On Me
A6 Coo Coo
B1 Women Is Losers
B2 Blindman
B3 Down On Me
B4 Caterpillar
B5 All Is Loneliness
B6 The Last Time