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Mike Jahn (reviewer, New York Times) : Pearl contains ten songs, two of them written by Miss Joplin. She produced a total of three albums for Columbia and an early one for Mainstream Records, but none approached the magnificence of her concerts.
Cheap Thrills best showed Miss Joplin the blues-rock screamer, and Pearl best shows her as an artist of diverse abilities. Her version of A Woman Left Alone, a slow blues, is exquisitely tortuous. Me And Bobby McGhee, on which she plays guitar, is unusual for her, a country song that she does in quite an original style. It is somewhat eerie to hear her sing that song’s chorus: “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose...”
Mercedes Benz is a piece of frivolity about praying for a color TV and the like, sung a capella. Get It While You Can is a powerful blues. Move Over, which opens the LP, is a hard rocker. Buried Alive in the Blues is an instrumental number that shows she had finally found a good band to work with.
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Cheap Thrills best showed Miss Joplin the blues-rock screamer, and Pearl best shows her as an artist of diverse abilities. Her version of A Woman Left Alone, a slow blues, is exquisitely tortuous. Me And Bobby McGhee, on which she plays guitar, is unusual for her, a country song that she does in quite an original style. It is somewhat eerie to hear her sing that song’s chorus: “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose...”
Mercedes Benz is a piece of frivolity about praying for a color TV and the like, sung a capella. Get It While You Can is a powerful blues. Move Over, which opens the LP, is a hard rocker. Buried Alive in the Blues is an instrumental number that shows she had finally found a good band to work with.