Cheap Thrills [Remaster]

Performer: Big Brother & The Holding Company
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Also available with BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY FEATURING JANIS JOPLIN, PEARL, I GOT DEM OL' KOZMIC BLUES AGAIN MAMA! and bonus disc RARE PEARLS in BOX OF PEARLS: THE JANIS JOPLIN COLLECTION. Also available with PEARL and I GOT DEM OL' KOZMIC BLUES AGAIN MAMA! in a 3-CD set. Big Brother & The Holding Company: Janis Joplin (vocals); Sam Houston Andrew, III, Peter S. Albin (guitar, bass); James Gurley (guitar); Dave Getz (drums). Additional personnel: John Simon (piano). Producer: John Simon. Reissue producer: Bob Irwin. Engineers include: Fred Catero, Jerry Hochman, Roy Segal. Recorded from March-May 1968 & live at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan on March 2, 1968. Originally released on Columbia (9700). Includes liner notes by John Byrne Cooke. Big Brother & The Holding Company: Janis Joplin (vocals); Sam Houston Andrew, III, Peter S. Albin (guitar, bass); James Gurley (guitar); Dave Getz (drums). Additional personnel: John Simon (piano). Producer: John Simon. Reissue producer: Bob Irwin. Recorded from March-May 1968 & live at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan on March 2, 1968. Originally released on Columbia (9700). Includes liner notes by John Byrne Cooke. After a relatively obscure indie debut album, Big Brother's unforgettable appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival led to CHEAP THRILLS, their major label bow. Its R. Crumb cover art made it a visual standout, but the visceral power contained within heralded Janis Joplin's arrival as a new countercultural blues-rock diva. Partially recorded live at San Francisco's Fillmore, CHEAP THRILLS showed Joplin's affinity for the blues, as she effortlessly covered the standard "Summertime" as well as her heroine Big Mama Thornton's "Ball & Chain." Band conflicts caused by Joplin's high profile within the group resulted in her leaving soon afterward for a solo career.

Entertainment Weekly (10/1/99, p.75) - "...a blues-rock apotheosis, with Joplin's primal scream scraping up against Big Brother's willfully deranged, acid-stoked boogie..." - Rating: A- Q (11/99, p.156) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a raw fiery collection that includes the hits 'Piece Of My Heart', 'Summertime' and 'Ball & Chain'..."

Big Brother and the Holding Company was the group that backed 1960s blues-rock siren Janis Joplin. Their hallucinogenic charm lies in the gulf between the roots music they loved and the electrically charged, psychedelic-tinged music they actually played. Brimming with casual confidence and empowered by a sense of community, this band mixed free-spirited innovation with total honesty and commitment. At the end of the decade, Joplin departed for a solo career, though she would tragically depart from the world itself soon after.

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