{{Refimprove|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Pearl Sessions | type = Compilation | artist = Janis Joplin | cover =The Pearl Sessions.jpg | alt = | released = 2012 | recorded = September 5 – October 3, 1970 | venue = | studio = | genre = Blues rock, country rock, funk rock | length = 02:13:31 | label = Columbia | producer = | prev_title = Blow All My Blues Away | prev_year = 2012 | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=the-pearl-sessions-mw0002316218|label="Janis Joplin: ''The Pearl Sessions''" |first=Thom |last=Jurek |access-date=6 August 2013}}</ref> }}
'''''The Pearl Sessions''''' is a compilation album by Janis Joplin released in 2012. It contains alternate takes of the songs that constituted the album ''Pearl'' posthumously released by Columbia Records in 1971. Recordings of Joplin and producer Paul Rothchild talking between takes give the listener insight into their creative musical process.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Disc 1 | | title1 = Move Over | writer1 = Janis Joplin | length1 = 3:43 | title2 = Cry Baby | writer2 = Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns | length2 = 3:58 | title3 = A Woman Left Lonely | writer3 = Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham | length3 = 3:29 | title4 = Half Moon | writer4 = John Hall, Johanna Hall | length4 = 3:53 | title5 = Buried Alive in the Blues | writer5 = Nick Gravenites | length5 = 2:27 | title6 = My Baby | writer6 = Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman | length6 = 3:45 | title7 = Me and Bobby McGee | writer7 = Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster | length7 = 4:31 | title8 = Mercedes Benz | writer8 = Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure | length8 = 1:47 | title9 = Trust Me | writer9 = Bobby Womack | length9 = 3:17 | title10 = Get It While You Can | writer10 = Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman | length10 = 3:28 }} {{Track listing | headline = Bonus tracks: The Mono Single Masters | title11 = Me and Bobby McGee | note11 = mono version | writer11 = Kristofferson, Foster | length11 = 4:11 | title12 = Half Moon | note12 = mono version | writer12 = John Hall, Johanna Hall | length12 = 3:56 | title13 = Cry Baby | note13 = mono version | writer13 = Ragovoy, Berns | length13 = 4:00 | title14 = Get It While You Can | note14 = mono version | writer14 = Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman | length14 = 3:29 | title15 = Move Over | note15 = mono version | writer15 = Janis Joplin | length15 = 3:42 | title16 = A Woman Left Lonely | note16 = mono version | writer16 = Spooner Oldham | length16 = 4:48 }} {{Track listing | headline = Disc 2 | title1 = ''Overheard in the Studio...'' | length1 = 0:40 | title2 = Get It While You Can | note2 = Take 3: 7.27.70 | writer2 = Mort Shuman | length2 = 3:39 | title3 = ''Overheard in the Studio...'' | length3 = 1:39 | title4 = Get It While You Can | note4 = Take 5: 7.27.70 | writer4 = Mort Shuman | length4 = 3:46 | title5 = ''Overheard in the Studio...'' | length5 = 2:30 | title6 = Move Over | note6 = Take 6: 7.27.70 | writer6 = Janis Joplin | length6 = 4:06 | title7 = Move Over | note7 = Take 13: 7.28.70 | writer7 = Janis Joplin | length7 = 4:38 | title8 = Move Over | note8 = Take 17: 7.28.70 | writer8 = Janis Joplin | length8 = 4:08 | title9 = Me and Bobby McGee | note9 = Demo Version 7.28.70 | writer9 = Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson | length9 = 4:48 | title10 = Me and Bobby McGee | note10 = Take 5: Alternate: 7.28.70 | writer10 = Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson | length10 = 4:51 | title11 = Cry Baby | note11 = Alternate Version 9.5.70 | writer11 = Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns | length11 = 4:59 | title12 = A Woman Left Lonely | note12 = Alternate Vocal 9.9.70 | writer12 = Spooner Oldham | length12 = 3:36 | title13 = ''Overheard in the Studio...'' | length13 = 2:28 | title14 = My Baby | note14 = Alternate Take 9.9.70 | writer14 = Mort Shuman | length14 = 3:56 | title15 = ''Overheard in the Studio...'' | length15 = 2:54 | title16 = Get It While You Can | writer16 = Mort Shuman | note16 = Take 3: 9.11.70 | length16 = 3:33 | title17 = My Baby | note17 = Alternate Take 9.24.70 | writer17 = Mort Shuman | length17 = 4:00 | title18 = Pearl | note18 = Instrumental 10.10.70 | writer18 = Full Tilt Boogie Band | length18 = 4:31 }} {{Track listing | headline = Bonus tracks | title19 = Tell Mama | note19 = Live 7.28.70 | writer19 = Marcus Daniel | length19 = 6:38 | title20 = Half Moon | note20 = Live 8.3.70 from "The Dick Cavett Show" | writer20 = John Hall, Johanna Hall | length20 = 4:07 }}
==Personnel== * Janis Joplin – vocals, guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee" * Richard Bell – piano * Ken Pearson – organ * John Till – electric guitar * Brad Campbell – bass guitar * Clark Pierson – drums
===Additional personnel=== * Bobby Womack – acoustic guitar on "Trust Me" * Bobbye Hall – conga, percussion * Phil Badella, John Cooke, Vince Mitchell – backing vocals * Sandra Crouch – tambourine * Phil Macy – engineer * Vic Anesini – mastering
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