Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company – Janis Joplin With Big Brother And The Holding Company (E/VG+) – LP, AU 1976

Janis Joplin With Big Brother And The Holding Company is an LP by Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company from 1976 released on the World Record Club label.

About this album

Big Brother & The Holding Company’s debut is a raw, formative San Francisco psychedelia record that bridges folk rock, blues rock and the city’s emerging acid-rock scene. Issued in 1967, it captures the group before Janis Joplin became the dominant public focus, with the band still sounding loose, rough-edged and exploratory. The album’s original material, including songs such as Down on Me and Call On Me, mixes garage-band bite with blues-derived urgency and youthful unease. More than a future-star showcase, it stands as an important document of the West Coast underground taking shape in real time.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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