Cheap Thrills is the second album from Big Brother and the Holding Company and their last album with Janis Joplin as primary lead vocalist. Big Brother obtained a considerable amount of attention after their 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival and had released their debut album soon after. Despite their newfound success, the album was a modest hit reaching only number 60, though the single Down On Me nearly broke the Top 40. Columbia Records offered the band a new recording contract, but it took months to get through since they were still signed to Mainstream Records. By early Read more on Last.fm.
The “king daddy” of Big Brother and the Holding Company’s career, and perhaps only equalled by Pearl in Joplin’s; in essence, the quintessential female interpretation of manic and dazed psychedelic blues.