Genre: American pop/rock
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Ball And Chain
Gear costume: Turtle Blues
Active compensatory factors: For me, Janis Joplin's finest hour. Before the crazy histrionic downward slide towards her early exit, her work as just one of the band on this album features her most inspired vocals.
It's most definitely of its time, 1968, though in terms of the Holding Company's sound. It's the psychedelic guitar attack of Sam Andrew (who died in 2015) and mostly James Gurley (died 2009) that established and now dates the sound - freak out guitar wig outs.
Janis didn't stick around too long after this album and its subsequent tours, so by 1969 she'd started up the Kozmic Blues Band and the slide to her death in 1970 was underway.
Where do they all belong? Well, it's a starkly tragic, cautionary tale - heroin and alcohol doesn't lead to a long happy life. Duh! So remember her this way, young and vital - singing Turtle Blues.
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