Big Brother & The Holding Company - Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

NEW VINYL LP ON MUSIC ON VINYL 2012

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

Big Brother & The Holding Company might best be known for being the first band Janis Joplin sung in, a live recording like this one shows their prowess as a five‐piece band. Their June 23, 1968 show at the Carousel Ballroom would prove to be legendary on a number of levels. The venue was owned by members of Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead and would later become the Fillmore West. Janis would leave the band only two months after the show to pursue her solo career, making this one of the last times the ensemble worked together. The show was recorded by Augustus Owsley Stanley III , a.k.a. 'Bear', soundman of The Grateful Dead and a masterful LSD‐cooker, who also supervised the re‐mastering of the recordings shortly before his death in March 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_and_the_Holding_Company

Tracklist

Side A
1. Combination Of The Two
2. I Need A Man To Love
3. Flower In The Sun
4. Light Is Faster Than Sound    

Side B
1. Summertime
2. Catch Me Daddy
3. It's A Deal
4. Call On Me

Side C
1. Jam - I'm Mad (Mad Man Blues)
2. Piece Of My Heart
3. Coo Coo    

Side D
1. Ball & Chain
2. Down On Me
3. Call On Me (Saturday Show)