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The Pearl Sessions is a compilation album of Janis Joplin released in 2012. It contains alternate takes of the songs that constituted the Pearl vinyl album when Columbia Records released it in 1971. Recordings of Joplin and Paul Rothchild talking between takes give the listener insight into their creative musical process.

Track listing

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Move Over"	Janis Joplin	3:43
2.	"Cry Baby"	Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns	3:58
3.	"A Woman Left Lonely"	Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham	3:29
4.	"Half Moon"	John Hall, Johanna Hall	3:53
5.	"Buried Alive in the Blues"	Nick Gravenites	2:27
6.	"My Baby"	Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman	3:45
7.	"Me and Bobby McGee"	Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster	4:31
8.	"Mercedes Benz"	Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure	1:47
9.	"Trust Me"	Bobby Womack	3:17
10.	"Get It While You Can"	Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman	3:28

Bonus tracks: The Mono Single Masters
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Me and Bobby McGee" (mono version)	Kristofferson, Foster	4:11
12.	"Half Moon" (mono version)	John Hall, Johanna Hall	3:56
13.	"Cry Baby" (mono version)	Ragovoy, Berns	4:00
14.	"Get It While You Can" (mono version)	Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman	3:29
15.	"Move Over" (mono version)	Janis Joplin	3:42
16.	"A Woman Left Lonely" (mono version)	Spooner Oldham	4:48

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Overheard in the Studio..."		0:40
2.	"Get It While You Can" (Take 3: 7.27.70)	Mort Shuman	3:39
3.	"Overheard in the Studio..."		1:39
4.	"Get It While You Can" (Take 5: 7.27.70)	Mort Shuman	3:46
5.	"Overheard in the Studio..."		2:30
6.	"Move Over" (Take 6: 7.27.70)	Janis Joplin	4:06
7.	"Move Over" (Take 13: 7.28.70)	Janis Joplin	4:38
8.	"Move Over" (Take 17: 7.28.70)	Janis Joplin	4:08
9.	"Me and Bobby McGee" (Demo Version 7.28.70)	Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson	4:48
10.	"Me and Bobby McGee" (Take 5: Alternate: 7.28.70)	Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson	4:51
11.	"Cry Baby" (Alternate Version 9.5.70)	Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns	4:59
12.	"A Woman Left Lonely" (Alternate Vocal 9.9.70)	Spooner Oldham	3:36
13.	"Overheard in the Studio..."		2:28
14.	"My Baby" (Alternate Take 9.9.70)	Mort Shuman	3:56
15.	"Overheard in the Studio..."		2:54
16.	"Get It While You Can" (Take 3: 9.11.70)	Mort Shuman	3:33
17.	"My Baby" (Alternate Take 9.24.70)	Mort Shuman	4:00
18.	"Pearl" (Instrumental 10.10.70)	Full Tilt Boogie Band	4:31

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
19.	"Tell Mama" (Live 7.28.70)	Marcus Daniel	6:38
20.	"Half Moon" (Live 8.3.70 from "The Dick Cavett Show")	John Hall, Johanna Hall	4:07

Personnel

Janis Joplin – vocals, guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee"
Richard Bell – piano
Ken Pearson – organ
John Till – electric guitar
Brad Campbell – bass guitar
Clark Pierson – drums

Additional personnel

Bobby Womack – acoustic guitar on "Trust Me"
Bobbye Hall – conga, percussion
Phil Badella, John Cooke, Vince Mitchell – backing vocals
Sandra Crouch – tambourine
Robert Honablue - engineer

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "Janis Joplin: The Pearl Sessions" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 August 2013.

[1] Jurek, Thom. "Janis Joplin: The Pearl Sessions" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 August 2013.

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v t e Janis Joplin
Big Brother and the Holding Company Kozmic Blues Band Full Tilt Boogie Band
Studio albums	Big Brother & the Holding Company (1967) Cheap Thrills (1968) I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) Pearl (1971)
Live albums	In Concert (1972) Live at Winterland '68 (1998) The Woodstock Experience (2009) Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (2012)
Compilations	Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (1973) Janis (1975) Wicked Woman (1976) Farewell Song (1982) Janis (1993) This Is Janis Joplin (1995) 18 Essential Songs (1995) Love, Janis (2001) The Lost Tapes (2008) Move Over! (2011) Blow All My Blues Away (2012) The Pearl Sessions (2012)
Songs	"Ball and Chain" "Careless Love" "Cry Baby" "Down on Me" "Flower in the Sun" "Hesitation Blues" "Kozmic Blues" "Mary Jane" "Me and Bobby McGee" "Mercedes Benz" "Move Over" "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" "Piece of My Heart" "See See Rider" "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" "Summertime" "Tell Mama" "To Love Somebody" "Trouble in Mind" "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" "Work Me, Lord"
Related	Janis (1974 documentary) Love, Janis (2001 musical) Nine Hundred Nights (2001 documentary) Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015 documentary) Sam Andrew Jorma Kaukonen Gabriel Mekler Michael Monarch