When Joplin's management convinced her to discard Big Brother and the Holding Company as her backing band, her record label put together a new group of musicians for her.
"[2] Full Tilt Boogie Band played their first session with Joplin on April 4, 1970, at the Fillmore West studios in San Francisco, California and began touring in May 1970.
[1] From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt joined the all-star Festival Express tour through Canada, performing alongside the Grateful Dead, Delaney and Bonnie, Rick Danko and The Band, Eric Andersen, and Ian & Sylvia.
A positive review appeared on the front page of The Harvard Crimson newspaper despite the fact that the band performed with makeshift sound amplifiers after their regular equipment was stolen in Boston.
Although Joplin died three months before all the tracks were fully completed, there was still enough usable material to compile an LP, which became her second solo album Pearl, released posthumously in January 1971.