"New Age" Janis Joplin
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I love Lzzy Hale!!!  I am a "very mature" adult (old) and can't get enough!!!  The lyrics and range is amazing!!!  Keep up the good work:-)  I started listening by a recommendation of my 25 yr. old son.  He knows his Mama!!!  "Thanks," Halestorm!!!
626221
This third volume in the Pure Moods series is another good addition to the New Age compilation series. I must say though that the Pure Moods compilations in my opinion are relatively spotty with good, incredible, haunting New Age tunes that sometimes are placed against Jazz material that I must say belongs on a smooth jazz compilation.
However, one song comes to mind: Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel is absolutely extraordinary. The version on his third self-titled album is very creepy, eerie and quirky with New Wave influences and distorted sound effects. It's an anti-war song that speaks out against war. The one on here is so different. The Massive/DB mix is completely different from the original 1980 version. Where as the original version is quirky, the version on Pure Moods is very ambient, haunting and a lot darker but leans on the more melancholy side and with a production that is more in the vein of Secret World off on 1992's US. It's absolutely an incredible edit that is just as good as the older version if not better. It's a wonderful aural experience to hear this classic from a whole different light. Bravo Peter! It truly magnifies it's message against war.
Other favorites are Porcelain, Only If, Gravity Of Love & Suzanne Cianis Velocity Of Love.
A worthy collection that I highly recommend just for Games Without Frontiers alone!
3931970
Alanis has always been known to have lyrics that are both poetic and full of emotion.  Her newest album Flavors of Entanglement is no exception.  Each song offers a different mood and mental states of philosophy. She is able to  offer her listeners light songs that can bring you up and offer them powerful vocal expression that you can feel passion from.

I highly suggest this new album.  You can tell she took the time to make it hers.  The hard work paid off and Alanis fans should be able to get more than their fix from this album.
4102352
I heard several selections from this CD on an internet music stream.  Was very impressed with the music.  I would recommended this album to any new age music fan.
443163
She writes interesting songs.  She has a unique and enjoyable voice and nice guitar skills.  I immediately thought of Melissa Etheredge.  I would really like for her to go find someone to make her happy so she can go write happy songs and sing them to me.  We need fun, hippiesk, love songs again. Something I can listen to with my wife.  I think it would be a fantastic album.  I want to hear her sing "Help Me."  Probably make me melt although redoing Joni would be like redoing Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner.  Not sure if that would ruin her thing but it would certainly brighten my day, knowing she found someone better and have an upbeat album that I could listen to.
3755079
I have been a big fan of Anita Baker, ever since her first song came out "Angel". I love all of her old stuff (it's classy and timeless), but I'm waiting her for to come back with some new material.
2229430
I never thougt i hear another voice that souded like janis joplin but i was wrong. It is a cross between rod stewart and janis joplin. It works on the blues tunes like redunant but it a little to high for him on the rocking tunes like alice. If you can get by the singer voice which is better than pete ways voice ,i recomend you buy it ,great cd.
4281535
'The Obsessions And Passions of Janis Joplin' is a very accurate description of the book - it doesn't deal much with the artist, it tells a lot more about her sex life and drug abuse. I myself prefer at least a bit more information on the music of the musician in question, but I must admit the book does a good job of showing us the confused, extremely talented, both loved and rejected personality that was Janis Joplin.
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We live in Brooklyn, NY went out to purchase a New Age CD. purchased back in 1998 or 1999.  We do experience an inner peace, serenity, good breathing techniques for inner body healing, mind and spiritual journeys. Which has been played and listend to for 8-9 years.  Now,we find that it is missing from our collections of Healing CD which this we found to be the best of all Healing CD's. I Love and miss this CD because it helped me copespiritually, mentally and last but not least physically with my discease,illness,anxiety and breathing. Which contributed to my calmness.
390462
Laura Sullivan is my favorite New Age artist and I always enjoy her music.  This is perfect when you are driving in traffic, preparing your dinner or just enjoying the afternoon sun!  The music relaxes and enhances your life!  Thank you Laura for a another wonderful CD.
2153704
This is my favorite Cosy album, because it's some of her best stuff along with a live style.  She can be devilishly irreverent ("The Mustang Ranch" "Waldo's Lament") and amazingly insightful into the issues of wounded inner children ("Allies") while still celebrating ("Walk into Heaven") all in the same concert.  I recommend this to all new age folkies.
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Reviewers are torn between the sound vs. performance of Joplin at Woodstock (and the missing vocals on "I Can't Turn You Loose").  There exist two (unauthorized) concert recordings from the same 1969 tour that showcase a more seasoned Joplin with the Kozmic Blues Band.  One is called "Summertime" (recorded in Amsterdam) and the other is "1969 Dallas/Amsterdam" (13 tracks, 7 of which replicate "Summertime").  "Maybe," "Summertime" and "Ball & Chain" from Amsterdam can be found on the "Janis" soundtrack import, which sounds excellent, even if it'll never be available in the U.S. except for the cassette version from years ago.
With all the posthumous and "new" Jimi Hendrix products being released seemingly every other week, aren't there ANY unreleased concert recordings and/or alternate studio cuts of Janis Joplin, with any of her three bands?
1726835
I was truly impressed with this item. Just when I thought there were no more new blues. This band is so refreshing, Janis meets Allman Bros .... a hint of Fleetwood Mack .... what can I say, but extremely pleased.
3798533
I heard this girl on Austin City Limits and WOW! She sings from the same place inside that Janis Joplin reached from. Superb talent.
2153244
Wow! what a great new age artist and fun woman! Met Marcome on twitter and became an instant fan! her music is filled with her passion and her soul inhabits vividly this vocaly rich musical tapestry! a beauty! Tks to twittter!
3215511
I actually really liked this album. It's fluff, but it's well done fluff.  The last (hidden)track is "Both Sides Now", which I believe was originally done by Joni Mitchell, or at least she has the most well known version of it.  I think it's been redone about 20 times, but I really like this new version.
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When this book was first published, I read a review on it.  I don't remember where I read it or by whom it was written.  The writer gave the impression that it was written by Janis' straight and nerdy sister who just wasn't part of, and didn't understand "the scene".  The writer went on to say that there was some value in Janis' letters and that if you were a true Janis fan that you should probably read it, but recommended other books on Janis over this one.  The implication was that Laura Joplin tried to present a Janis that was much straighter and more clean cut than she was in truth. So, having read this review, I didn't bother to read the book, especially since I'd read so many others.

Recently I went to see the Broadway Play Love, Janis and after hearing some portions of the letters read as part of the play, my interest in the book was sparked and I purchased it.  Having done so, I think the writer of that review owes the world, and certainly Laura Joplin an apology.  This book was beautifully written by someone who, as her sister, could give us insights that no one else ever could.  I would like to include here a quote from the book, which certainly proves to me that Laura Joplin understood it all.

She was explaining the talents that each member of Big Brother and the Holding company brought to the group. "Janis brought her roots in blues.  She knew the blues, and wanted her audience to know them through her.  If the audience sought to have all its senses aroused at a concert, then Janis, as trance enhancer, brought total commitment to her music.  Hers was not a music born merely of the vocal cords anyway, but an ensemble piece within her physical presence alone.  She coaxed the music with urging arms and strutting steps.  She delved deep within herself, so that piecs of her soul seemed to dance along the harmonies and ride the tidal waves of sound that defined her voice."

Laura Joplin does not shrink from her sister's drug and alcohol use, her bisexual love affairs, or anything else.  She talks of Janis' insecurities and where they originated. She tells her story with deep honesty.  The book includes the Joplin family tree.  Not just a list of grandparents names but a small history of each forefather explaining what brought them together and brought her parents eventually to Port Arthur, Texas and also gives the reader a glimpse of the sturdy stock from which Janis came.  It shows you a soft and sensitive, loving side of Janis' that we surely knew was there, but the truth of which could only really be provided by Laura's glimpse into personal family history.  Of course Janis, growing up in the 50's and 60's would not have been a wild hippy child during her younger years.  Hippies hadn't happened yet.  The 50's and early 60's were very "straight" times.  This book is where you learn how the Caterpillar turned into the Butterfly that she became. I think we are incredibly fortunate that Laura Joplin was willing to set the record straight and willing to share such personal tidbits from their home and family life.  There must have been alot of soul searching and emotional moments that went into creating this book and we should be grateful to Laura for having done it.  I deeply treasure this addition to my collection of books on Janis, just as I treasure the music that our Janis, queen of the blues, left as her legacy.  I hope wherever she is that she is able to know how many people she touched; the ever growing number of fans she still has and how many of us truly always will Love Janis.