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- Summary: The 12 unreleased recordings by rock legend Jimi Hendrix include new versions of songs that were under consideration to be included on a follow-up to 1968's "Electric Ladyland."
- Record Label: Sony Legacy
- Genre(s): Rock, Blues, Psychedelic
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| Bleeding Heart | |
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| People, hear me! people You know what it means to be left alone Yeah, people hear me people Do you know what it means to be left alone? Not even a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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With the promise of 12 fully-completed, untainted studio recordings that have otherwise gone unheard by the public (and even the most inventive of bootleggers), I arrives with considerable significance to all things guitar-worthy.
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The album’s crisp production captures every nuance of Hendrix’ technical wizardry—drums snap and guitars burble in simpatico, offering a hazy and heavy backdrop to road-trip yarns (“Stone Free”), flirtations with bluegrass (“Crying Blue”) and show-stopping covers (“Sunshine of Your Love” and “Bleeding Heart”).
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Some tunes were “inexplicably excised from the original multitrack master,’’ the liner notes say, but the bottom line is that this is a potent release full of Jimi’s improvisatory guitar mania.
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As completist-pleasing collections go, this has a lot to recommend it. Just don’t mistake it for anything but a postscript to a postscript to a brilliant career.
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Of these 12 songs, half are relatively unfamiliar, although a journey into YouTube reveals that hardcore Hendrix fans have uncovered them all before, with different names or in different forms.
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UncutEnjoyable stuff. But you have to wonder how this really aids our understanding of what Hendrix was up to, other than by reminding us that whenever he rehearsed, he recorded the session. [Apr 2010, p.108]
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For a visionary guy like Hendrix, this glorified compilation isn't as imaginary as it could be.
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Oct 27, 2010
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