Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Album

The Cheap Thrills album is as good a representation of Big Brother and the Holding Company as one could have been expected and as good a one as there ever will be. It is also a fair approximation of the San Francisco scene in all its loud, exciting, sloppy glory. The album also features Janis Joplin at the height of her musical intensity. Janis Joplin said, "we're just a sloppy group of street freaks.” But these San Francisco acid rockers, one of the first Haight-Ashbury groups, were the most simpatico band she ever had, especially when its raw racket backs her up on "Piece of My Heart.” For those who remember the summer of love or would like to have been there, this album is a real happening.