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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelOmnivore Recordings, Omre
UPC0810075111484
eBay Product ID (ePID)24058713400
Product Key Features
Release Year2022
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistJoplin, Janis & Kaukonen, Jorma
Release TitleThe Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jormas House
Dimensions
Item Height0.27 in
Item Weight0.14 lb
Item Length5.44 in
Item Width5.10 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks8
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 "Are We Taping Now?" (Dialog) 1.2 Trouble in Mind 1.3 Long Black Train 1.4 Kansas City Blues 1.5 Hesitation Blues 1.6 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 1.7 "How 'Bout This?" (Dialog) 1.8 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
NotesJorma Kaukonen (later of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) met a singer named Janis Joplin at a hootenanny in San Jose, California, in the fall of 1962. Over the following years, Janis would call on Jorma to accompany her at gigs. As they continued to play together, the Bay Area was changing musically and developing into the legendary San Francisco scene to which both Janis and Jorma would be integral. During a rehearsal for a show in North Beach, Jorma started his reel-to-reel machine to capture what they were working on. For decades, this recording was the stuff of legend, with inferior, multi-generational transfers making their way through select collector's circles. Now, for the very first time, it is available officially, with the blessing and cooperation of both the Janis Joplin Estate and Jorma Kaukonen. The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma's House contains this legendary recording, featuring Restoration and Mastering from acclaimed, Grammy®-winner Michael Graves. The tracks include Joplin on vocals, Kaukonen on guitar, and Jorma's wife Margareta typing away intermittently in the background. This may have just been a rehearsal, but it is so much more. Featuring Joplin originals, as well as blues classics, The Legendary Typewriter Tape is an intimate glimpse into two major artists at the beginnings of what would become highly influential careers. As Jorma says in his liner notes: "This is indeed a window into a simpler time when the music truly was everything."
I believe it's a rare find and a very interesting listen/view "behind the curtains ". Janis channels Bessie Smith in the beginning but her voice is incredible when she softly does some practice runs in between full songs.