LEGACY RECORDINGS COMMEMORATES JANIS JOPLIN'S BIRTHDAY WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PEARL SESSIONS

DEFINITIVE TWO-DISC EDITION OF JANIS JOPLIN'S FAREWELL ALBUM MASTERPIECE DEBUTS NEWLY DISCOVERED STUDIO OUTTAKES, BANTER & RARITIES INCLUDING NINE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE TRACKS

Janis Joplin - The Pearl Sessions
Available Everywhere Tuesday, April 17, 2012

COLUMBIA/LEGACY RECORDINGS RELEASING
THE FIRST OF "BEAR'S SONIC JOURNALS":
BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY FEATURING JANIS JOPLIN
LIVE AT THE CAROUSEL BALLROOM 1968,
RECORDED & PRODUCED BY OWSLEY STANLEY ("BEAR")

Long Awaited Release of Seminal Concert Recording
from Mythic Soundman's "Sonic Journals"
Available Tuesday, March 13, 2012

BRAND SPANKING NEW TITLES FROM JANIS JOPLIN,
BOB DYLAN, SOUNDGARDEN, NIRVANA, KINGS OF LEON,
THE BLACK KEYS, JIMMY CLIFF, JOHN CALE, IRON & WINE,

Not only was Janis Joplin the greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, she was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. Since Pop Market is featuring Janis as the artist of the day, here is a single for your listening pleasure!
Janis Joplin "Down On Me"

Janis Joplin Pop Market Deal

Janis Joplin was the greatest female rock singer of the 1960s. She dominated this track with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. You can’t deny her vocal ability and passion!
Janis Joplin "Piece Of My Heart"

Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits

American singer and songwriter Janis Joplin lead a free-spirited life in the era of free love and psychedelic drugs. She was a pioneer amongst the transient vagabonds who found themselves on the San Franciscan corner of Haight and Ashbury, and was so influential in her mere 27 years that she has inspired generations with her soulful lyrics and powerful voice.
Janis Joplin "Maybe"

From the October 1 New York Times

IN the late summer of 1968, Big Brother and the Holding Companyhad nearly finished recording "Cheap Thrills" when Janis Joplin, the band’s singer, slipped the drummer Dave Getz a set of lyrics she’d handwritten to accompany a piano riff he had been practicing. The song, "Can’t Be the Only One," with words by Joplin and music by Mr. Getz, was something of a parting gift. Within days, Joplin gathered her band mates in a room at the Chelsea Hotel and announced that she was going solo.

The details of Janis Joplin’s story are now legend: how the bluesy Texas girl unleashed her fury on the San Francisco hippie scene with Big Brother & The Holding Company, bowled over Columbia’s Clive Davis at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, and became the most galvanizing woman in rock. Kris Kristofferson’s “Me And Bobby McGee” wasn’t a typical Joplin song, but her poignant performance, conveying all the battered weariness she must have felt, was all the more gripping for its posthumous success.

40 years ago, at what Rolling Stone called "the most famous event in rock history", the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held in Bethel, New York. Of the 32 acts that performed during the festival, five of them, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Winter, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone, had just recorded albums for Sony Music labels. For the first time today, the Woodstock Experience series combines those albums along with the music from their festival performance in one wonderful package.

Rooted in the live music, community and sustainable living aspects of the original Woodstock Festival, Woodstock.com is an all inclusive online community of fans and artists that celebrates the Woodstock Festivals and all Live Music Events from all generations, all genres and all levels of artists from anywhere around our beautiful green planet.

• View exclusive never before seen pictures and festival and artist information.
• Add your own Woodstock pictures and reviews and contribute to the overall history of Woodstock through the Woodstock Wiki, "WikiStock.

This summer celebrates the 40th Anniversary or what Rolling Stone called "the most famous event in rock history", of the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair. In the summer of 1969, 500,000 people and 32 musical performances came together in Bethel, New York, for an event that sufused our culture, politically and socially, as much as musically.

COMMERCIAL

FORD
The Strokes "You Talk Way Too Much"

FILM

WE OWN THE NIGHT
The Clash "The Magnificent Seven"

THE COMEBACKS
Journey "Don't Stop Believin'"
The Weather Girls "It's Raining Men"
Kasabian "Shoot The Runner"

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
Lou Reed "Sweet Jane"

TV

Promos:
DANCING WITH THE STARS PROMOS
Jennifer Lopez "Let's Get Loud"

Monday (10/15)
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
Santana "Into The Night"
Santana "This Boy's Fire"

EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS #47, CW, 8PM
Aretha Franklin "Freeway Of Love"

JOURNEYMAN #103, NBC, 10PM
Spin Doctors "Two Princes"

Tuesday (10/16)