Lost Janis Joplin Tapes "For Co'Dine will kill me, Honey, That's The Bargain I Paid"

  "For Co'Dine will kill me, Honey, That's The Bargain I Paid"

 7 songs originally Janis and guitar but later with full band added. James Gurley released the tapes in 1995 as - 

This Is Janis Joplin.

 https://youtu.be/dprtK9qgEq8

Michael Shenk

3 years ago (edited)

In October 1967, I stood next to the center of Winterland’s stage in San Fransisco for Big Brother and the Holding Company. Janis and the Holding Co. were right in front of me. I shall never forget how beautiful that concert was. Janis’ voice was more folk rock than blues that night, my favorite Janis. I vividly recall her yelling out to James Gurley, after a long guitar solo, “James Gurley, you got the sexiest amplifier I ever heard!” He just finished making spacey electronic sounds with it. I remember the sweat pouring off Janis during ‘ball and chain'. I remember her shaking maracas in either ‘ah sweet Mary’ or ‘cuckoo’. Above all I shall never forget that soaring feeling in my heart during ‘piece of my heart'. At the end of the show, she looked as happy as sunlight. The whole band was in elevated spirits that night. It was long ago. Quicksilver Messenger Service opened the show and the Grateful Dead played before Big Brother.When I went I had a feeling some great music was about to be heard. I didn’t smoke, snort anything or dip into the bags of LSD-25 I remember seeing the audience pass around.I knew I wanted to remember that magical night the rest of my life and so I did. I am 72 years old.

 

Buffy Sainte-Marie – Cod'ine Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

“Cod'ine” tells of the painful experience of opiate addiction. Released in 1964, it is one of the earliest anti-drug songs. Buffy Sainte-Marie composed the song after developing an...

An' my belly is craving, I got shakin' in my head
I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead
If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time
For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

When I was a young man I learned not to care
Wild whiskey, confronted I often did swear
My mother and father said whiskey is a curse
But the fate of their baby is many times worse
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

You'll forget your woman, you'll forget about man
Try it just once, an' you'll try it again
It's sometimes you wonder and it's sometimes you think
That I'm a-living my life with abandon to drink
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns
Stay away from the men pushin' the codine around
Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found
I will live a few days as a slave to codine
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' my belly is craving, I've got a shakin' in my head
An' I've started heating whether my body said
Steady yourself with the grains of cocaine
An' you'll end dead or you'll end up insane
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' my belly is craving, I got shaking in my head
I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead
If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time
For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

 

trust me

https://www.allmusic.com/song/trust-me-mt0013292875

 

Song Review by Joe Viglione  [-]

Songwriter Bobby Womack released this superb tune on his 1975 Safety Zone album, but in its form as the sleeper track on Janis Joplin's 1971 Pearl album, "Trust Me" emerges with great power, a performance that is Janis at her absolute best. Her voice goes from sweet in the first couple of lines to raspy when she so knowingly issues lines like "the older the grape, the sweeter the wine." Ken Pearson's organ works wonderfully alongside Bobby Womack's acoustic guitar and John Till's electric. Paul Rothchild's production work is simply amazing, choreographing this thick array of sounds and piecing them together perfectly, Brad Campbell's bass and Richard Bell's piano lines both dancing inside the changes. Listen to Clark Pierson's definite drums as the song fades out, a solid team effort recorded on September 25, 1970, just a week and a half before Janis would leave us. In a small catalog of work, "Trust Me" shows what truly gifted art Janis Joplin brought to this world. Having Womack participating is a treat, the element of the songwriter working with the interpreter and their camaraderie as a major contribution to this definitive version cannot be overlooked. The creative energy is in these grooves and one doesn't have to imagine how magical the room must have been when this music was made. It translates very well. As "Me & Bobby McGee" has been overplayed, "Trust Me" has been underexposed. This key piece of the Pearl album concisely shows Janis Joplin as the equal of Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday, Otis Redding and her other heroes. At certain moments during this song Joplin eclipses even those gods.