San Francisco rockers, Big Brother
& The Holding company have released their first album in twenty years on
Mystic Records.
The band were formed in the late 60's by current band members, Sam Andrew,
Peter Albin and David Getz who played a form of "progressive, regressive
hurricane style blues", which is an apt description for the brilliant
material on this album.
In 1966 the band added a little known Janis Joplin to their line-up and
the rest as they say, is history. Appearances at the Monterey Pop Festival
and a Number 1 album with "Cheap Thrills" les to world-wide
acclaim. When Janis returned to a solo career, the band carried on touring
and recording before each went their own way in the late 70's.
Same, Peter and David reformed the band through popular demand in the late
90's. A brilliant vocalist in Lisa Battle was recruited along with guitarist,
Tom Finch and work began on the new album. "Do What You Love"
opens with "Take Off" and then things really do!. With 13 new
recordings, including a nod to the Joplin era with "I Need A Man To
Love" and "Women Is Losers", the CD roars along with Lisa's
powerful vocals matched by the dueling guitars of Andrew and Finch and the
driving rhythms of Albin and Getz .... has the San Francisco sound been in
safer hands.
