
Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album "Cheap Thrills" is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the US Billboard charts
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Piece of My Heart
Summertime
Ball and Chain
I Need a Man to Love
Combination of the Two
Call On Me
Down On Me
Turtle Blues
Oh, Sweet Mary
Bye, Bye Baby