| 1 | Bye Bye Baby - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 2 | Easy Rider - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 3 | Intruder - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 4 | Light Is Faster Than Sound - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 5 | Call on Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 6 | Women Is Losers - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 7 | Blindman - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 8 | Down on Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 9 | Caterpillar - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 10 | All Is Loneliness - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 11 | Coo Coo [*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 12 | Last Time [*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 13 | Call on Me [Alternate Take][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 14 | Bye Bye Baby [Alternate Take][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 15 | Combination of the Two - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 16 | I Need a Man to Love - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 17 | Summertime - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 18 | Piece of My Heart - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 19 | Turtle Blues - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 20 | Oh, Sweet Mary - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 21 | Ball and Chain - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 22 | Road Block [#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 23 | Flower in the Sun [#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 24 | Catch Me Daddy [Live][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 25 | Magic of Love [Live][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 26 | Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 27 | Maybe - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 28 | One Good Man - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 29 | As Good as You've Been to This World - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 30 | To Love Somebody - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 31 | Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 32 | Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 33 | Work Me, Lord - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 34 | Dear Landlord [*] - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 35 | Summertime [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 36 | Piece of My Heart [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 37 | Move Over - Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band |
| 38 | Cry Baby - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 39 | Woman Left Lonely - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 40 | Half Moon - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 41 | Buried Alive in the Blues - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 42 | My Baby - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 43 | Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 44 | Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 45 | Trust Me - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 46 | Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 47 | Tell Mama [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 48 | Little Girl Blue [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 49 | Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 50 | Cry Baby [Live][#][*] - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band |
| 51 | It's a Deal [Studio Outtake][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 52 | Easy Once You Know How [Studio Outtake][#][*] - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin |
| 53 | Maybe [Live][#][*] - Sunny Murray Duo, Sunny Murray Duo |
| 54 | Raise Your Hand [Live][#][*] - Sunny Murray Duo, Sunny Murray Duo |
| 55 | Bo Diddley [Live][#][*] - Sunny Murray Duo, Sunny Murray Duo |
Janis Joplin was one of the most exhilarating performers of an era blessed with riveting stage artists, but all but her most emphatic champions must concede her recorded oeuvre is problematic. With Big Brother & the Holding Company she was surrounded by up-from-the-streets cohorts who were spiritually attuned to Joplin, even if they weren't always musically in tune. After one rushed, premature effort for the Mainstream label, Big Brother hit the top of the charts with one of the touchstones of the San Francisco sound, Cheap Thrills. Barraged by critics who believed Joplin's skills as a blues and soul singer were being squandered in a psychedelic setting, the toast of Haight-Ashbury went solo with the up-and-down I Got Them Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama. Joplin was hitting her stride during the 1970 Pearl sessions when she died of a drug overdose at age 27. The album's posthumous release was a critical and commercial smash. Box of Pearls binds the 1999 remastered and expanded versions of the aforementioned albums and tosses in a five-track rarities EP entitled, appropriately enough, Rare Pearls. Much of Box of Pearls is brilliant while portions are badly dated, but it's all Joplin. --Steven Stolder
