Janis Joplin | Lossless Music Archives

Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma’s House (2022) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen - The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma's House (2022) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma’s House (2022)
[CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 296 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Omnivore Recordings| Genre: Blues

Jorma Kaukonen (later of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) met a singer named Janis Joplin at a hootenanny in San Jose, California, in the fall of 1962. Over the following years, Janis would call on Jorma to accompany her at gigs. As they continued to play together, the Bay Area was changing musically and developing into the legendary San Francisco scene to which both Janis and Jorma would be integral. Continue reading “Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma’s House (2022) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968)
[2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.55 GB (ISO) + 1.52 GB (DSF) + 760 MB (FLAC) + 236 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2172 | Genre: Blues Rock
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Cheap Thrills is a studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was their last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noise to give the impression of a live album, which it was subsequently mistaken for by listeners. Only the final song, their cover of “Ball and Chain”, had been recorded live at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Continue reading “Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) [1993, MasterSound Remastered]

Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971) [1993, MasterSound Remastered]

Janis Joplin’s second masterpiece (after Cheap Thrills), Pearl was designed as a showcase for her powerhouse vocals, stripping down the arrangements that had often previously cluttered her music or threatened to drown her out. Thanks also to a more consistent set of songs, the results are magnificent — given room to breathe, Joplin’s trademark rasp conveys Continue reading “Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) [1993, MasterSound Remastered]”

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin – Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills (2018) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin - Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills (2018) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin – Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills (2018)
[CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz / 88.2kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 787 MB (CD-Quality) + 2.03 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Columbia / Legacy | Genre: Blues Rock

Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills takes listeners into the sessions of Big Brother and The Holding Company’s landmark second album Cheap Thrills – the album that introduced the world to the raw power of vocalist Janis Joplin. This 2CD set features 30 alternate takes (25 of which are previously unreleased) of unforgettable songs from Cheap Thrills, including “Piece Of My Heart,” “Summertime,” “Ball and Chain” and “Catch Me Daddy.” Liner notes by Big Brother drummer Dave Getz and Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick set the scene as one of the decade’s most powerful rock and roll singers put forth a document that would inspire generations to come. Continue reading “Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin – Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills (2018) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) [1999, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) [1999, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.75 GB (ISO) + 3.09 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.01 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Colubia / Legacy | USA | Cat#: CS 65784 | Genre: Blues Rock, Classic Rock
Continue reading “Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) [1999, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
PS3 SACD Rip | ISO @1bit/2.8224MHz, DSD64 | FLAC Tracks @24bit/88.2kHz | Stereo
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.38 GB (ISO) + 692 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | Austria | Cat#: UDSACD 2173 | Genre: Blues Rock, R&B

Pearl is the second and final solo studio album by Janis Joplin, released posthumously on Columbia Records, catalogue KC 30322, in January 1971. It was also released simultaneously in a 4 channel Quadraphonic format in the U.S., catalogue number CQ 30322, and in Japan as SOPN 90 and a foil type cover with obi as SOPN 44005. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band Continue reading “Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971) {2016, MFSL, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”

Janis Joplin – Discography (1967 – 2013)

Janis Joplin - Discography (1967 - 2013)

The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late ’60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as a solo artist. Although she wasn’t always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians Continue reading “Janis Joplin – Discography (1967 – 2013)”

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) {2012, Audio Fidelity, Remastered}

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (1968) {2012, Audio Fidelity, Remastered}

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) {2012, Audio Fidelity, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans @600 dpi, JPG, Included
Total Size: 348 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity, USA | Cat#: AFZ 150 | Genre: Blues Rock

Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums of 1968. Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company had earned extensive press notice ever since they played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, but for a year after that their only recorded work was a poorly produced, self-titled album that they’d done early in their history for Mainstream Records Continue reading “Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (1968) {2012, Audio Fidelity, Remastered}”