CD-Charts Position 191
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Live at Winterland '68 [CASSETTE]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Co.

Release Date June 02, 1998
This is a great genuinely live album in a way that Cheap Thrills isn't. I love Thrills but its studio augmented\dubbed\enhanced and misses the true buzz of a real live performance. This album buzzes. The accompanying booklet is a great potted history too - something missing from other Janis albums. There's 14 great buzzing tracks as opposed Thrills 7 (Okay - so two takes of Down on Me). It's raw, exciting, encapsulated in that moment of time and truly off the wall.

There's no delicacy here and sometimes Sam Andrew's vocal gets lost in the mix but never Janis' - hers storms out like a twister in a heatwave. Live versions of "Faster than Sound", "Flower in the Sun", "Magic of Love" & "Easy Rider". Shame there's no "Sweet Mary" ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 192
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Old, New, Borrowed & Blue [CASSETTE]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women

Release Date October 18, 1994
This is a great genuinely live album in a way that Cheap Thrills isn't. I love Thrills but its studio augmented\dubbed\enhanced and misses the true buzz of a real live performance. This album buzzes. The accompanying booklet is a great potted history too - something missing from other Janis albums. There's 14 great buzzing tracks as opposed Thrills 7 (Okay - so two takes of Down on Me). It's raw, exciting, encapsulated in that moment of time and truly off the wall.

There's no delicacy here and sometimes Sam Andrew's vocal gets lost in the mix but never Janis' - hers storms out like a twister in a heatwave. Live versions of "Faster than Sound", "Flower in the Sun", "Magic of Love" & "Easy Rider". Shame there's no "Sweet Mary" ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 193
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1924-1925

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Bessie Smith

Release Date November 19, 1996
This is a great genuinely live album in a way that Cheap Thrills isn't. I love Thrills but its studio augmented\dubbed\enhanced and misses the true buzz of a real live performance. This album buzzes. The accompanying booklet is a great potted history too - something missing from other Janis albums. There's 14 great buzzing tracks as opposed Thrills 7 (Okay - so two takes of Down on Me). It's raw, exciting, encapsulated in that moment of time and truly off the wall.

There's no delicacy here and sometimes Sam Andrew's vocal gets lost in the mix but never Janis' - hers storms out like a twister in a heatwave. Live versions of "Faster than Sound", "Flower in the Sun", "Magic of Love" & "Easy Rider". Shame there's no "Sweet Mary" ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 194
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Farewell Song [CASSETTE]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Janis Joplin

Release Date October 17, 1990
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 195
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Alberta Hunter Vol.1: 1921-1923

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Alberta Hunter

Release Date July 01, 1996
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 196
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The Right Time [CASSETTE]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Etta James

Release Date September 29, 1992
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 197
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Tell Mama

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Etta James

Release Date April 01, 1992
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 198
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Mia Rainey

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey

Release Date June 05, 1995
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 199
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Best Of: Mercedes Benz

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Janis Joplin

Release Date
This album features Janis with no less than 4 bands: Full Tilt Boogie, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Kozmic Blues Band. It's brilliant and highly enjoyable and I don't mind if 80s studio instruments are added! My favourite tracks are the powerful Magic Of Love, the heart-rending One Night Stand, the melancholy Farewell Song, the cheeky medley of Amazing Grace/Hi Heel Sneakers and the riveting Catch Me Daddy. I have no hesitation in placing this album on a par with Pearl, Kozmic Blues or Cheap Thrills. Great songs performed with passion!

CD-Charts Position 200
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The Earthshaker [CASSETTE]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Female Singers
by: Koko Taylor

Release Date October 17, 1990
There is barely a single weak moment on Koko Taylor's 1978 LP.
Sure, her remakes of "I'm A Man" (as "I'm A Woman") and "Wang Dang Doodle" are somewhat less than innovative, but just about everything else is just plain great. And Taylor is backed by an excellent little combo which includes guitarists Johnny Moore and Sammy Lawhorn, saxist Abb Locke, and the legendary Joe "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano.

Nobody can really cover Howlin' Wolf and get away with it, but Koko Taylor does as good as anybody on a really solid "Spoonful", and her swaggering renditions of Mel London's "Cut You Loose" and the saucy Irma Thomas-single "You Can Have My Husband" are just magnificent.
"Let The Good Times Roll" and "Hey Bartender" still pop ... Read More: