How Hard It Is
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Track listing
- "How Hard It Is" – 4:21
- "You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me, Baby" – 3:27
- "House on Fire" – 3:56
- "Black Widow Spider" – 3:32
- "Last Band on Side One" – 1:57
- "Nu Boogaloo Jam" – 3:24
- "Maui" – 3:27
- "Shine On" – 5:25
- "Buried Alive in the Blues" – 3:59
- "Promise Her Anything But Give Her Arpeggio" – 3:55
Personnel
- Sam AndrewSam AndrewSam Andrew is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, artist and founding member and guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company. During his career as musician and composer, Andrew has had three platinum albums and two hit singles...
- guitar, vocals - David Schallock - guitar
- Mike Finnegan - vocals, keyboards
- James GurleyJames GurleyJames Gurley was an American musician. He is best known as the guitar player of Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic/acid rock band from San Francisco which was fronted by singer Janis Joplin from 1966 to 1968.-Early life:James Gurley was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 22, 1939...
- bass - Peter Albin - guitar, bass
- David Getz - drums, percussion, piano
- Kathi McDonaldKathi McDonaldKathryn Marie McDonald , popularly known as Kathi McDonald, is a blues and rock singer. She currently performs with Kathi McDonald & Friends. She has appeared on an extensive list of rock and blues albums and toured extensively with Long John Baldry prior to his death...
- vocals - Nick GravenitesNick GravenitesNicholas George Gravenites , with stage names like Nick "The Greek" Gravenites and Gravy, is a blues, rock and folk singer–songwriter, and is best known for his work with Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield and several influential bands and names of the generation springing from the 1960s and 1970s...
- vocals