Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
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| Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix | ||||
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| Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix | ||||
| Released | September 16, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | October 1966 – October 1970 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, Psychedelic soul, blues-rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 73:32 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix | |||
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Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best known music from 1966 to 1970 released on September 16, 1997 in the United Kingdom and on November 3, 1998 in the United States.
[edit] Reception
It reached #10[citation needed] in the UK and #133[citation needed] in the US where it ultimately went platinum.[citation needed] It is noted as one of the most successful posthumous greatest hits albums ever released for an artist.[citation needed]
[edit] Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
- "Purple Haze" – 2:52
- "Fire" – 2:43
- "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:20
- "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:30
- "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) – 3:59
- "Stone Free" – 3:36
- "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:19
- "Manic Depression" – 3:42
- "Little Wing" – 2:25
- "If 6 Was 9" – 5:34
- "Foxy Lady" – 3:19
- "Bold as Love" – 4:11
- "Castles Made of Sand" – 2:47
- "Red House" – 3:50
- "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 5:12
- "Freedom" – 3:25
- "Night Bird Flying" – 3:50
- "Angel" – 4:22
- "Dolly Dagger" – 4:45
- "The Star Spangled Banner" (Key, Smith) – 3:46 [Recorded live at Woodstock]
- Bonus disc
The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks:
- "Highway Chile" – 3:41
- "Gloria" (Morrison) – 8:54
- "It's Too Bad" – 8:53
- "Spanish Castle Magic" – 5:50
- "Hear My Train A-Comin'" – 6:58
- "Lover Man" – 2:58
- "I Don't Live Today" (Live) – 6:34
- "Purple Haze" (Live) – 4:03
- Tracks 1–15 are performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
- Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 and 14 are from the album Are You Experienced?.
- Tracks 9, 10, 12 and 13 are from the album Axis: Bold as Love.
- Tracks 5, 7 and 15 are from the album Electric Ladyland.
- Tracks 16, 17, 18 and 19 are from the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
- Track 20 is from the album Live at Woodstock.
- The version of "Red House" found here derives from a different take than the one found on the UK edition of Are You Experienced.
[edit] Personnel
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Mitch Mitchell – drums
- Noel Redding – bass guitar, vocals
- Additional musicians
- Billy Cox - bass guitar, vocals
- Buddy Miles - drums
