Listening to Pearl made me very upset. I wasn’t upset because the album was bad, though. I was upset because it was so good. Janis Joplin had assembled a band that matched her vocal skills. They had selected the perfect songs to suit her skills. And just months before the album was released, the singer was dead, another member of the tragically, mythic 27 Club. I don’t think any other album forces me to ask, “What could have been?” more