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Love Janis

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The music, of course, we know it and and love it.

Those who have seen the play (based on the book) have experienced the very poignant connection between Janis's letters home to her family and Janis' music. This cd of Janis' music (by Janis) interspersed with those letter excerpts read (by actress Catheine Curtin) is illuminating, touching, thoughtful, funny. It makes Janis so real, man, as we know she was, a real person, not some "star" or "legend." This cd is done with the cooperation of Laura and Michael Joplin, brother and sister, so the pictures included are very new to at least this member of the public. The liner notes are extensive and fascinating. Very seldom do you get a chance to "hear" the person alongside the "artist" and in 'Love, Janis' we have that rare and wonderful opportunity, very well done.

What a great CD - I played it over and over again - just the way I used to play Janis' LPs when I was a teenager. The "readings" of Janis' letters to her family are so well done that I had to keep reminding myself that they were being done by an actress. So generous of Janis' family to share these letters with us and let us once again hear her passion, her crackling humor, and her masked pain. The world is a duller place without Janis - this CD brings back a little of her heart and soul.

Much better CD than Janis' Greatest Hits collection. While there are no live performances, the selection of songs from her studio CD's is excellent. However, for me, a fanatical Janis fan, what makes this CD worthwhile is Janis' letters. These letters show a side of Janis not always in line with her public image of 60's icon. They remind us of the human being behind the legend.

I purchased the CD of LOVE, JANIS, more as a collector of Cast (and "Companion") Albums than as a fan of Janis Joplin (whose work I tend to appreciate more than actually enjoy), but I suspect it would have been an excellent experience for either. Blending 12 of Columbia's actual Joplin recordings of numbers used in the Off-Broadway show (April 22, 2001 through January 5, 2003 at the Village Theatre!) with letters written by Joplin to the family from the biography which inspired the show and read by the women who played Joplin on stage, the CD creates as moving a picture of the late rock singer as the 1979 Bette Midler film (THE ROSE) which brought her to the attention of a broader audience who wasn't initially "into" her brand of hard, personal rock. The show which prompted the album is now long gone, but the CD is highly recommended to anyone not already familiar with Joplin's oeuvre or those fans who might want to know more about the lady who so broadened the horizons of the pop music landscape.

I enjoyed this product. It was a combination of Janis's letters home and her music.
The actress who read them sounded a lot like Janis.

I really wanted to hear more of her letters and less of the music. The music is widely available. Hearing more of her journey from her own voice was what I was yearning for.

Good Product though.

hi, just short note... i bouht this cd. i must say that collection of the song is good. BUT why someone else is reading janises letters? oh my god. its digusting. if they want to let people know, what janis wrote to her family, they can print it into booklet. i really do not like idea where you are listening to song of janis joplin and in next track, there is a woman changing voice, pretending that shes janis.... shame on you good luck Columbia