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Cheap Thrills/I Got Dem Ol' Kosmic Blues Again Mama/Pearl

Janis Joplin / Big Brother & The Holding Company

Initial release : 1995 / 2000

Sony 64804 (1995) / Columbia/Legacy 66021 (2000)

Three albums collected together as a set. The 2000 version includes the CD versions of the albums with bonus tracks that were released in 1999.

Track listing

The track list shown here is the 2000 release with bonus tracks.

CD 1;

  • Combination of the Two (Andrew)
  • I Need a Man to Love (Joplin / Andrew)
  • Summertime (Heyward / Gershwin)
  • Piece of My Heart (Ragovoy / Berns)
  • Turtle Blues (Joplin)
  • Oh, Sweet Mary (Joplin)
  • Ball and Chain (Thornton)
  • Road Block (Albin/Joplin)
  • Flower in the Sun (Andrew)
  • Catch Me Daddy (Albin/Andrew/Getz/Gurley/Joplin)
  • Magic of Love (Spoelstra)
CD 2;
  • Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) (Ragavoy/Taylor)
  • Maybe (Barrett)
  • One Good Man (Joplin)
  • As Good as You've Been to This World (Gravenites)
  • To Love Somebody (Gibb/Gibb)
  • Kozmic Blues (Joplin/Mekler)
  • Little Girl Blue (Hart/Rodger)
  • Work Me, Lord (Gravenites)
  • Dear Landlord (studio recording June 1969) (Dylan)
  • Summertime (live at Woodstock) (Gershwin/Heyward)
  • Piece of My Heart (live at Woodstock) (Berns/Ragavoy)
CD 3;
  • Move Over (Joplin)
  • Cry Baby (Meade/Russell)
  • A Woman Left Lonely (Oldham/Penn)
  • Half Moon (Hall)
  • Buried Alive in the Blues (Gravenites)
  • My Baby (Ragavoy/Shuman)
  • Me and Bobby McGee (Foster/Kristofferson)
  • Mercedes Benz (Joplin/McClure)
  • Trust Me (Womack)
  • Get It While You Can (Ragavoy/Shuman)
  • Tell Mama (Carter/Daniel/Terrell)
  • Little Girl Blue (Hart/Rodgers)
  • Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) (Ragavoy/Taylor)
  • Cry Baby (Berns/Ragavoy)
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Musicians

On CD 1 (Cheap Thrills);

  • Peter Albin - bass
  • Sam Andrew - guitar
  • David Getz - drums
  • James Gurley - guitar
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • John Simon - piano
On CD 2 (Kosmic Blues);
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • Sam Andrew - guitar, background vocals
  • Richard Kermode - organ
  • Gabriel Mekler - organ
  • Brad Campbell - bass
  • Maury Baker - drums
  • Louie Castille - drums
  • Snooky Flowers - baritone saxophone, background vocals
  • Terry Clements - tenor saxophone
  • Luis Gasca - trumpet
On CD 3 (Pearl);
  • Janis Joplin - vocals
  • Brad Campbell - bass
  • Clark Pierson - drums
  • Ken Pearson - organ
  • John Till - guitar
  • Richard Bell - piano
  • Sandra Crouch - tambourine
  • Bobbie Hall - bongos, conga
  • Bobby Womack - guitar (Trust Me)
  • Pearl - guitar (Me & Bobby McGee)
  • Pearl, Full Tilt Boogie, Vince Mitchell, Phil Badella, John Cook - Chorus voices
Related releases

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