Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection

Disc 1
1	Bye Bye Baby 2:39
2	Easy Rider 2:25
3	Intruder 2:30
4	Light Is Faster Than Sound 2:33
5	Call on Me 2:35
6	Women Is Losers 2:05
7	Blindman 2:25
8	Down on Me 2:07
9	Caterpillar 2:20
10	All Is Loneliness 2:32
11	Coo Coo Bonus Track 1:58
12	The Last Time Bonus Track 2:17
13	Call on Me previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Alternate Take 2:41
14	Bye Bye Baby previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Alternate Take 2:39
Disc 2
1	Combination of the Two 5:47
2	I Need a Man to Love 4:54
3	Summertime 4:00
4	Piece of My Heart 4:15
5	Turtle Blues 4:22
6	Oh, Sweet Mary 4:16
7	Ball and Chain 9:37
8	Road Block previously unreleased / Bonus Track 5:33
9	Flower in the Sun previously unreleased / Bonus Track 3:05
10	Catch Me Daddy Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 5:31
11	Magic of Love Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 3:58
Disc 3
1	Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 3:57
2	Maybe / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 3:41
3	One Good Man / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 4:12
4	As Good as You've Been to This World / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 5:27
5	To Love Somebody / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 5:14
6	Kozmic Blues / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 4:24
7	Little Girl Blue / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 3:51
8	Work Me, Lord / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 6:45
9	Dear Landlord / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band Bonus Track 2:32
10	Summertime / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 5:04
11	Piece of My Heart / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 6:31
Disc 4
1	Move Over / Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band 3:43
2	Cry Baby / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:58
3	A Woman Left Lonely / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:29
4	Half Moon / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:53
5	Buried Alive in the Blues / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 2:27
6	My Baby / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:45
7	Me and Bobby McGee 4:31
8	Mercedes Benz / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 1:47
9	Trust Me / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:17
10	Get It While You Can / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band 3:33
11	Tell Mama / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 6:32
12	Little Girl Blue / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 3:56
13	Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 6:52
14	Cry Baby / Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 6:30
Disc 5
1	It's a Deal / Big Brother & The Holding Company previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Studio Outtake 2:18
2	Easy Once You Know How / Big Brother & The Holding Company previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Studio Outtake 3:53
3	Maybe / Sunny Murray Duo Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 4:00
4	Raise Your Hand / Sunny Murray Duo Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 5:16
5	Bo Diddley / Sunny Murray Duo Live / previously unreleased / Bonus Track 6:13

Barnes & Noble

It's hard to believe that Janis Joplin's meteoric career lasted only three years before she disappeared in a spray of feathers, gin, and myth. Thankfully, she left behind a body of work that serves as testimony to a voice so arrestingly powerful and quintessentially American -- culled as it was from gospel, the blues, country, folk, and San Francisco psychedelia -- that it still distinguishes her amid today's plethora of zealous pop divas. Box of Pearls contains all four of Joplin's digitally remastered studio albums as well as a bonus CD of previously unreleased tracks, Rare Pearls, which features a couple of groovy, ragtag outtakes from Cheap Thrills and live renditions of "Maybe," "Raise Your Hand," and "Bo Diddley" that showcase Joplin's ball-bearing-hard, James Brown-style bravado. In addition, the package features a bonanza of previously unreleased live and bonus tracks from each stage of Joplin's recording career, which not only open another window into her sandpaper sensuality and spotlight her electric intensity but also offer another taste of something we never got enough of. Steph Paynes

All Music Guide

A limited-edition five-CD box set comprising both albums that Janis Joplin made with Big Brother & the Holding Company (Cheap Thrills and Big Brother & the Holding Company), both of her solo albums (I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and Pearl), and a bonus EP with five previously unreleased recordings. Each of these four albums includes previously unreleased bonus tracks (including live material), and each is available separately with the same bonus cuts. The tracks on the bonus EP aren't available anywhere else, and if you're devoted enough to consider laying out for this deluxe box, you're probably most interested in what's on that fifth disc. There are a couple of Cheap Thrills outtakes, "It's a Deal" and "Crazy Once You Know How," with a garagey feel and some typically scorching, uninhibited Big Brother lead guitar; it can be seen why they may not have been deemed strong enough for the album, but they're pretty cool to have. The live versions of "Maybe" (April 1969) and "Raise Your Hand" (October 1969) are OK, but not essential; of greater curiosity is the raw live charge through "Bo Diddley" (also October 1969). In the original long-box shaped release, each of the CDs is packaged in a mini-LP-type jacket, which would be really cool except for the fact that, cheapskates that Sony management is, none has an inner-sleeve, so the CDs tend to roll out of the sleeve once they're unsealed, unless you put them back in the box very carefully; additionally, the producers didn't re-create the gatefold design of Cheap Thrills; there are two subsequent versions of the set, a domestic wide CD-sized box containing full, jewel-cased versions of the five discs, and a Japanese version in mini-LP sleeves (with inner sleeves) and with two accompanying booklets. Note that this box does not include a good deal of material that has shown up on the Janis box, the Janis movie soundtrack, In Concert, and Farewell Song, so it's not a complete collection of Joplin's recordings. ~ Richie Unterberger & Bruce Eder, All Music Guide