Columbia/Legacy
Recordings is releasing Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack), the official album companion to the highly acclaimed documentary
written, directed and coproduced by Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Amy J.
Berg ("Deliver Us From Evil," "West of Memphis").
A remarkable
career-spanning anthology, Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack), brings together 17 essential Janis Joplin live and studio
performances, including classic solo and Big Brother & the Holding Company
tracks. The album debuts a previously unreleased version of "Piece of My
Heart" (featured in the documentary and recorded live at the Generation
Club in New York City in April 1968 during the Wake for Martin Luther King
concert, this performance was included in the 1991 D.A. Pennebaker and Chris
Hagedus short film, "Comin' Home," and has been never been available
on a commercial audio release).
Janis:
Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) includes an early
recording of Janis Joplin singing Lead Belly's "Careless Love"; live
performances with Big Brother & The Holding Company (from San Francisco's
Avalon Ballroom, the Monterey Pop Festival, the Generation Club in New York
City and Detroit's mythic Grande Ballroom); the Kozmic Blues Band (Frankfurt,
West Germany, April 12, 1969); Janis live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair
(August 17, 1969) and the legendary Festival Express Tour (July 4, 1970).
Rounding out Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) are
definitive studio performances from the classic four original albums--Big
Brother & The Holding Company, Cheap Thrills, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues
Again Mama! and Pearl--recorded during Joplin's lifetime. All of the recordings
on the Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) can be
heard in the film.
The Janis:
Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) package includes new
liner notes penned by Amy J. Berg, seldom-seen vintage photographs and
reproductions of letters written by Janis, as detailed throughout the
documentary.
In
"Janis: Little Girl Blue," Academy Award®-nominated documentarian Amy
Berg examines the meteoric rise and untimely fall of one of the most revered
and iconic rock 'n' roll singers of all time: Janis Joplin. Joplin's life story
is revealed for the first time on film through electrifying archival footage,
revealing interviews with friends and family and rare personal letters,
presenting an intimate and insightful portrait of a bright, complicated artist
who changed music forever.
Joplin's own
words tell much of the film's story through a series of letters she wrote to
her parents over the years, many of them made public for the first time (and
read by Southern-born indie rock star/actor Chan Marshall, also known as Cat
Power). This correspondence is only one element of the stunning, previously
unseen material Berg discovered during the seven years she spent working on
"Janis: Little Girl Blue." New audio and video of Joplin in concert
and in the studio (some shot by legendary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker), and even
footage from her emotional return to Texas for her tenth high school reunion,
add depth and texture to this remarkable documentary.
"Janis:
Little Girl Blue" is a Content Media Corporation presentation of a
Disarming Films and THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC's American Masters production in
association with Jigsaw Productions, Sony Music Entertainment and Union
Entertainment Group. Narrated by Chan Marshall, edited by Billy McMillin,
Garrett Price, and Joe Beshenkovsky with music by Joel Shearer. Francesco
Carrozzini served as cinematographer. The film is produced by Alex Gibney, Amy
Berg, Jeff Jampol, and Katherine LeBlond with Michael Kantor, Susan Lacy, Noah
C Haeussner, Stacey Offman and Michael Raimondi as executive producers. The
film is directed by Amy Berg.
"Amy
Berg brings an intimate voice to her absorbing documentary portrait of late
blues-rock goddess Janis Joplin," wrote Guy Lodge in Variety.
David
Rooney, writing in the Hollywood Reporter called "Janis: Little Girl
Blue": "Essential viewing...Berg's film presents a well-rounded,
deeply admiring picture of a maverick talent who paved the way for countless
female rockers…tells the legendary singer's story with vitality and
heart."
"Janis:
Little Girl Blue" premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival on September
6, 2015 and played successfully at a number of international festivals
including the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2015 Deauville
American Film Festival, the 2015 BFI London Film Festival, the Loft Film
Festival in Tucson, Arizona, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, The
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Key West Film Festival
and others.
The film
opened in New York City on November 27, 2015 at the Film Society of Lincoln
Center and the IFC Center, where it played to sold-out audiences for an
incredible eight-week run. Beginning December 4, "Janis: Little Girl
Blue" opened in more than 100 theaters nationwide including movie houses
in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Hollywood, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago,
Seattle, Neptune (NJ), Binghamton (NY), Pelham (NY), Phoenix, Tucson, Denver,
Orlando, Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, McKees Rock (PA), Washington
DC, Cleveland Heights (OH), Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and others.
In 2016,
"Janis: Little Girl Blue" is already enjoying an amazing
international reception, selling out multiple locations in France, Germany,
Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (where the film is
scheduled to open on additional screens throughout February and March).
"Janis:
Little Girl Blue" will have its exclusive U.S. broadcast premiere Tuesday,
May 3 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) on the "American
Masters" series. The broadcast will feature a never-before-seen extended
film cut with additional archival performance footage and new interviews.
Janis Joplin
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 by Melissa Etheridge,
who performed a tribute set to Janis at the ceremony. "She took a flag and
made a place in rock and roll for women," Etheridge says. "She was
the first." Janis was posthumously given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2005 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 4, 2013. In
December 2015, Janis Joplin's 1964 Porsche 356 was sold at RM Sotheby's for
$1.76 million, the highest price ever paid for a Porsche 356 at auction. Janis
bought the car in 1968 and had it painted, bumper to bumper and door to door,
in an exotic psychedelic landscape. Fans would often tuck notes to the singer
under the Porsche's windshield wipers. January 11, 2016 marked the 45th
anniversary of the posthumous release of Pearl, Janis Joplin's final studio
album. "A Night With Janis Joplin," the critically-acclaimed Broadway
musical, is currently on tour in the United States and
Canada.
Janis Joplin
/ Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack):
1.Careless Love – Janis Joplin (from:
Janis – Early Performances)
2.Down On Me – Big Brother & The
Holding Company (from: Big Brother & The Holding Company)
3.Women Is Losers – Big Brother &
The Holding Company (from: Janis Boxset)
4.Ball And Chain – Big Brother & The
Holding Company (recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival – June 17, 1967)
5.Piece of My Heart – Big Brother &
The Holding Company (Live at the Generation Club – April 1968, previously
unreleased as audio only)
6.Catch Me Daddy – Big Brother & The
Holding Company (recorded live at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit – March 2, 1968;
from: Cheap Thrills Expanded Edition)
7.Magic Of Love – Big Brother & The
Holding Company (recorded live at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit – March 2, 1968;
from: Cheap Thrills Expanded Edition)
8.Summertime – Big Brother & The
Holding Company (from: Cheap Thrills)
9.Raise Your Hand – Janis Joplin with
the Kozmic Blues Band (recorded live in Frankfort, West Germany – April 12,
1969; from: Farewell Song)
10.Maybe – Janis Joplin (from: I Got Dem
Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!)
11.Work Me, Lord – Janis Joplin
(recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair – August 17, 1969)
12.Trust Me – Janis Joplin & The
Full Tilt Boogie Band (from: Pearl)
13.Cry Baby – Janis Joplin (recorded
live in Calgary during the Festival Express Tour – July 4, 1970; from: Pearl
Expanded Edition)
14.Tell Mama – Janis Joplin (recorded
live in Calgary during the Festival Express Tour – July 4, 1970; from: Pearl
Expanded Edition)
15.Get It While You Can – Janis Joplin
& The Full Tilt Boogie Band (from: Pearl)
16.Me And Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
& The Full Tilt Boogie Band (from: Pearl)
17.Little Girl Blue – Janis Joplin
(from: I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!)
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