Janis Joplin – Move Over (Unreleased 6th Take) (Pearl Sessions, 1970)

Joplin’s last public performance, with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, took place on August 12, 1970, at the Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. A positive review appeared on the front page of The Harvard Crimson newspaper despite the facts that Full Tilt Boogie performed with makeshift sound amplifiers after their regular equipment was stolen in Boston.[8]

During late August, September and early October 1970, Joplin and her band rehearsed and recorded a new album in Los Angeles with producer Paul A. Rothchild, who had produced recordings for The Doors. Although Joplin died before all the tracks were fully completed, there was still enough usable material to compile a long-playing record.

The result of the sessions was the posthumously released Pearl (1971). It became the biggest selling album of her career[21] and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of Kris Kristofferson’s Me and Bobby McGee. Kristofferson had been Joplin’s lover in the spring of 1970.[28] The opening track Move Over was written by Joplin, reflecting the way that she felt men treated women.

Also included was the social commentary of the a cappella Mercedes Benz, written by Joplin, Bob Neuwirth and beat poet Michael McClure. The track on the album features the first and only take that Joplin recorded. The track Buried Alive In The Blues, to which Joplin had been scheduled to add her vocals on the day she was found dead, was included as an instrumental. In 2003, Pearl was ranked No. 122 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin]