Big Brother & The Holding Company (Featuring Janis Joplin)
Big Brother s debut album was not recorded under optimum circumstances. The sessions were too rushed, and the sound thinner than the band would have liked, especially given how much more powerful some of the material (such as "Down on Me" would sound in later concerts. Still, it's not the useless throwaway some critics have portrayed it as, and it decently conveys the band's loose, sometimes reckless blend of blues, folk-rock, and psychedelia. Janis Joplin sings with soulful intensity on "Down on Me" and "Call on Me" Peter Albin s "Light Is Faster Than Sound" is good wacked-out early Haight-Ashbury psychedelic rock; and the rock cover of Moondog s "All Is Loneliness" is spookily imaginative. The 1999 CD reissue adds the worthy single "Coo Coo" "The Last Time" (good Eastern-influenced guitar work on the former, a good hurt hard rock vocal from Joplin on the latter) and previously unreleased alternate takes of "Call on Me" and "Bye, Bye Baby." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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Credits »
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Main Performer
Janis Joplin - Arranger
Janis Joplin - Performer
Sam Andrew - Liner Notes
Bob Shad - Producer
Jud Cost - Liner Notes
Jim Marshall - Photography
Bob Irwin - Producer
David Gahr - Photography
Vic Anesini - Mastering
Vic Anesini - Mixing
Smay Vision - Art Direction
Elliott Landy - Photography
Nicholas Bennett - Photography
Nicholas Bennett - Packaging Manager
Daniel Kramer - Photography
Mark Feldman - Project Director
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