![]() The Joplin Estate has also teamed with Z2 Comics (publisher of the recent Grateful Dead: Origins graphic novel) for Pearl Comix, a new graphic novel written by Leah Moore ( Albion, Witchblade, Doctor Who) and illustrated by a host of female artists. The book is available for preorder now at while more details will follow there on the Feinstein art. In addition to these releases, the Joplin Estate is offering a number of other items to celebrate Pearl including the Genesis Publications release of the book Janis Joplin: Days & Summers - Scrapbook 1968 and a fine art collaboration with the estate of photographer Barry Feinstein. It's limited to 7,500 copies and retails for $125.00. MoFi's release will also be pressed at RTI on the label's "SuperVinyl" and will be packaged in foil-stamped jackets. Pearl will be pressed as an UltraDisc One-Step 180-gram 2-LP box set, pressed at 45 RPM for the best possible sound quality. Retail is set for $30 for VMP members and $35 for non-members.įor those with more expensive tastes, the second iteration comes in July from Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Their edition will be pressed on white "pearl"-colored 180-gram vinyl, sourced from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI. The first of these two releases arrives in April from online record club Vinyl Me Please. The Pearl Sessions, from 2012, offered more studio bonus tracks. ![]() ( Pearl was previously released as a 2-CD Legacy Edition with studio and live bonus material. ![]() This spring, Columbia and Legacy Recordings will commemorate the 4x Platinum, chart-topping Pearl with a pair of vinyl reissues. Rothchild) summed up her deep blend of soul, psychedelia, rock, and country, even touching on jazz and pop, with incendiary performances of now-classic songs including "Me and Bobby McGee," "Cry Baby," and "Mercedes Benz." Joplin honed her from-the-gut style in a brief but intense period of electrifying live performances and recording. A firebrand till her tragically early death at the age of 27 on October 4, 1970, Joplin didn't live to see the release of Pearl. 50 years ago today, Columbia Records unleashed Pearl, the final musical statement of Janis Lyn Joplin, on the world.
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