18 Essential Songs
18 Essential Songs is a one-disc distillation of the triple-disc Janis box set. Running 70 minutes, it is a more extensive best-of than the ten-track 1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits album. But it is denied "first pick" status because, unlike that album, it does not contain the hit version of Joplin s only number one single, "Me and Bobby McGee." (It does, however, contain an alternate demo version of that song.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Credits »
Janis Joplin - Arranger
Janis Joplin - Main Performer
Mary Katherine Aldin - Liner Notes
Don DeVito - Executive Producer
Elliot Mazer - Musical Consultant
Gary Pacheco - Project Director
Jerry Shulman - Executive Director
Bob Irwin - Compilation Producer
Joel Zimmerman - Art Direction
David Gahr - Photography
Vic Anesini - Remixing
Vic Anesini - Remastering
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