Big Brother & The Holding Company | Big Brother & The Holding Company (LP)

Six months before becoming an overnight sensation following a 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 Gurley and 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 to California 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."

Tracklist

A1        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

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: SUNDAZED MUSIC INC.
Catalog: 5188
Rel. Date: 09/30/2008
UPC: 090771518811

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• Released: 09/30/2008
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Genre: Rock
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP