Big Brother & The Holding Company

Big Brother & 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 Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Links to Peel
In the New Blind Date, published in the Melody Maker on 23rd September 1968, Peel described their recent album, Cheap Thrills, as nice and he was saddened to hear that Janis Joplin was leaving the Big Brother & The Holding Company, describing that she and the band will suffer because of this. In the same article, he mentioned six weeks ago playing their song, Piece Of My Heart, a cover of the Erma Franklin's track, on his show. 

Shows Played

 * Big Brother And The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart
 * 06 August 1967: All Is Loneliness (LP: Big Brother and the Holding Company) Mainstream 6099 (US release)
 * 14 August 1967: All Is Loneliness (LP - Big Brother & the Holding Company) Mainstream
 * 14 August 1967: Call On Me (LP - Big Brother & the Holding Company) Mainstream
 * 1968
 * 22 September 1968: Piece of My Heart (LP - Cheap Thrills) CBS
 * 1970
 * 28 November 1970: Mr Natural (LP - Be A Brother) CBS
 * 1972
 * 08 February 1972: Piece Of My Heart (2xLP – Janis Joplin In Concert) CBS
 * 2000
 * 15 June 2000: Combination Of The Two (LP - Cheap Thrills) CBS