Columbia/Legacy Recordings celebrates the 50th anniversary of Big Brother & The Holding Company’s major label debut with the premiere release of Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills. Issued at long last under its original title (nixed by the label as too controversial a half century ago), Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills restores the band’s vision and intent in an essential new collection of 16 rare performances including 12 previously unreleased demos and outtakes from the mythic 1968 sessions that generated Big Brother & The Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills, the breakout album that introduced Janis Joplin to the world. It also includes liner notes penned especially for this commemorative release by Jefferson Airplane frontwoman Grace Slick and Big Brother & The Holding Company drummer David Getz.

 

Tracklist

LP1

  1. Combination of The Two (Demo)
  2. I Need A Man To Love (Take 3)
  3. Summertime (Take 2) *
  4. Piece Of My Heart (Take 6)
  5. Harry (Take 10)
  6. Turtle Blues (Take 4)
  7. Oh, Sweet Mary
  8. Ball And Chain (live, The Winterland Ballroom, April 12, 1968)

LP2

  1. Roadblock (Take 1) *
  2. Magic Of Love (Take 1) *
  3. Oh Sweet Mary
  4. Flower In The Sun (Take 3)
  5. Catch Me Daddy (Take 1)
  6. Turtle Blues (Take 9)
  7. How Many Times Blues Jam
  8. Farewell Song (Take 5)