Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Janis Joplin – A Flower In The Sun Oil Well

Janis Joplin – A Flower In The Sun
Oil Well – RSC 039 CD

1 Flower In The Sun 3:01
2 Road Block 2:41
3 Summertime #1 4:30
4 Piece Of My Heart 4:39
5 All Is Loneliness 5:46
6 Down On Me 2:55
7 Bye Bye Baby 3:49
8 Farewell Song 4:39
9 Medley: Amazing Grace / High Heel Sneakers 2:36
10 Raise Your Hand 3:47
11 Magic Of Love 3:06
12 Summertime #2 3:58

Note:
~~Live in Santa Fe, March 27, 1966~~

Tracks 1,2,3 from June 23, 1968, Carousel Ballroom
Track 5 from April 4, 1970, at the Fillmore West, San Francisco,
Track 4,6,11 from March 2, 1968 at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan
Track 7 from April 12, 1968 at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California
Track 8 from 13th April 1968 - San Francisco
Track 9 from 31st January 1967 - San Francisco
Track 10 from 12th April 1969 - Frankfurt
Track 12 recorded in studio between March 2 – May 20, 1968

Lineup:
Janis Joplin – vocals
Big Brother and the Holding Company:
James Gurley – guitar
Sam Andrew – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums

This album is a partial clone of another bootleg of the time: "Flower In The Sun" - Starlite – CDS 51150. This bootleg is made up with tracks published officially in different years and in different albums. The songs from this CD have becorded live in various dates and cities (San Francisco, Detroit and Frankfurt) in 1967,1968,1969. On the front cover Janis Joplin performing live during a concert.

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© Official released material:
Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 have been released on In Concert - 1972
Track 7 has been released officially also in 1998 as "Live at Winterland '68" - Columbia, Legacy7
Tracks 8,9, 10,11 have been released officially on "Farewell Song" for Columbia on February 1982.
Track 11 has been released also on Box of Pearls vol. 2, longest version.
Track 12 has been released officially on Box of Pearls vol. 2
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In Concert (Janis Joplin album)
In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972, after Joplin's death, as a double-LP record. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, recorded at various locations in 1968 and 1970.

Janis Joplin is gone, by now just one more we’ve seen succumb in the public arena of the pop marketplace. It’s not just that this kind of early death has become a fact of life that is disturbing, but that it’s been accepted as a given so quickly. We’re getting to the point where we merely anticipate between exits, idly wondering which will be the next among our “heroes” to go. And caring less all the time.

Big Brother opens the album with a bang, a rush of metal thunder in “Down On Me,” recorded at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. Everyone is having a ball no matter how sloppy the music gets; in fact its sense of errant energy with no place to go but up is part of its power. Janis, the band, the audience, all feeding off of each other and giving back as much as they can of what they get. James Gurley’s guitar solo is one of his best on record, as searing a storm of noise as that in “Ball and Chain” on Cheap Thrills, but speeded up, directed with a kind of joyous fury at an audience who couldn’t get enough of it.

“Piece of My Heart,” also from the Grande tapes, is just as good: ragged but right. In some ways Janis’ delivery of this song here lacks the concentrated fire and pain of the earlier tak

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. The album was recorded by Owsley Stanley in 1968, and released on 12 March 2012 through Columbia and Legacy, on the one-year anniversary of his death in an automobile accident.

The concert by Big Brother and the Holding Company was performed at the Carousel Ballroom on June 23, 1968, shortly after recording sessions ended for the group's number-one hit album, Cheap Thrills. The concert took place during a brief six-month period in which the facilities were owned by bands including the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead. Afterwards, the ballroom would be purchased and run by Bill Graham, who renamed it the Fillmore West. Owsley Stanley, who most memorably produced innovative sound recordings for the Grateful Dead, manned the sound system for the Holding Company and other acts who played the Carousel. This is the first of Stanley's Bear's Sonic Journals, hundreds of released and unreleased live shows from the San Francisco psychedelic rock era. No mixing or remastering was done for the release of the album, as Stanley's intent was to create a unique and real sounds for the Holding Company's performance, Janis Joplin's lead vocals are dominant. Sam Andrew also ventured beyond his lead guitar role as an occasional co-lead vocalist and backing vocalist.

The Holding Company's heavily psychedelic instrumentals jell superbly with Joplin's commanding vocals, making standouts like "I Need a Man to Love" and "Ball and Chain" all the more stellar. Joplin establishes an emotional integrity in her performance. This concert is a prime example of the Holding Company at the climax of their live appearances in San Francisco. Apart from the band's usual repertoire are two rarities, "Jam - I'm Mad" and "It's A Deal," that had not yet been released. There is minimal stage banter, but what little there is noteworthy. After the eighth track, "Call on Me," it is announced to Hell's Angels bikers Tiny and Tim that their motorcycles would be towed if they were not promptly moved out of the parking lot.

Live at Winterland '68
Live at Winterland '68 is an album by Janis Joplin with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was recorded at the Winterland Ballroom on April 12 and 13, 1968, and includes live renditions of songs from their studio albums. After a successful tour of the East Coast of the United States, with B. B. King, Albert King, and others, Big Brother returned to San Francisco, where this album was recorded. Lengthier renditions of their songs, such as "Light Is Faster Than Sound" extending over 7 minutes, are included.

Recorded live in San Francisco on April 12 and April 13, 1968, this set is a snapshot of the band -- with fine sound -- reaching the peak of their form. All of the well-known songs from their first two albums are present: "Ball and Chain," "Down on Me," "Piece of My Heart," "Summertime," "Combination of the Two," and "Light Is Faster Than Sound," for starters. There isn't a single song that isn't available in some form on either the Janis box or the Farewell Song compilation, though. Also, these versions aren't remarkably different or better than the familiar ones, although they tend to run longer, particularly on the seven-minute "Light Is Faster Than Sound" and the ten-minute "Ball and Chain." A treat for fans to hear, with a 24-page booklet that has lots of comments from the band.