Janis Joplin - Pearl (Top 500 Countdown Update)

I never realized that Pearl was unfinished when Janis Joplin died. Thus the instrumental "Buried Alive In the Blues" which was waiting for her vocals to be done the day after her death. Hearing Joplin sing is great but for me the music is just way too heavy. "Me and Bobby McGee" stands out as being toned down much more than the rest of the album. Hard to imagine she would have gotten much better as a singer than she is on this album, but there was certainly room to grow with her backing band the arrangements.