The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions
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Artist: The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1998-06-02
Music Label: Experience Hendrix
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Foxey Lady
- Alexis Korner Introduction
- Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
- Rhythm And Blues World Service
- Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - (Alexis Koerner)
- Traveling With The Experience
- Driving South
- Fire
- Little Miss Lover
- Introducing The Experience
- The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
- Catfish Blues
- Stone Free
- Love Or Confusion
- Hey Joe
- Hound Dog
- Driving South
- Hear My Train A Comin'
- Purple Haze
- Killing Floor
- Radio One
- Wait Until Tomorrow
- Day Tripper
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Jammin'
- I Was Made To Love Her
- Foxey Lady
- A Brand New Sound
- Hey Joe
- Manic Depression
- Driving South
- Hear My Train A Comin'
- A Happening For Lulu
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Lulu Introduction
- Hey Joe
- Sunshine Of Your Love
Free Music Notes for BBC Sessions
Free Music Review: (4.5 stars) A remarkable archive release
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Hendrix live album for the same reason that Electric Ladyland is my favorite Hendrix studio album: it shows off his range better than any others. I'll grant that's not exactly a fair thing to say, because it's a compilation spanning his entire career, but as it turns out that career was quite a diverse one, so that's okay. This runs the gamut - Hendrix blues ("Catfish Blues", which served for the basis of the "Voodoo Chile" jam; "Hear My Train a Comin'", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Hey Joe", "Hound Dog", featuring a bunch of real dogs, a manic "Killin' Floor"), funk-rock ("Little Miss Lover"; the instrumental "Driving South"), ear busting acid-rock ("Foxey Lady"; a stripped-down "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"; "Purple Haze"; "Fire"; "Love or Confusion"; "Spanish Castle Magic"), and even a few covers of contemporary covers - the famous snippet from "Sunshine of Your Love"; a fine cover of "Day Tripper"; and, best of them all, Dylan's obscure b-side "Can I Please Crawl Out Your Window?". There's even a brief set with Stevie Wonder, who guests on his own hit "I Was Made to Love Her", and jams with Hendrix on the aptly-titled instrumental "Jammin'" I prefer the blues tracks greatly - "Catfish Blues", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Hear My Train a-Comin'" and "Killin' Floor" are probably the album's best four songs, more or less in that order. But just about everything is great - I really like the underproduced "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"; while "Foxey Lady", "Fire" and "Stone Free" are as invigorating as ever. Plus I'll always love Mitch's drumming on "Little Miss Lover". And the Stevie Wonder set is fantastic, merging two of the most fantastic musical talents of the 20th century. So I have little to no complaints about the music itself. Okay, so "Purple Haze" is disappointing. I don't think Jimi ever recorded a truly excellent live version of that song, because part of its greatness is in its trippy production, production he couldn't really recreate live. Instead, my main problem here is with the layout, so to speak. A couple songs are presented in multiple takes, and while I really enjoy "Hey Joe", "Driving South", "Foxey Lady" and "Hear My Train a-Comin'", multiple versions of the same songs that differ only superficially are both redundant and exhausting. Even with that little gripe, this is still an essential addition to the Hendrix catalog.
BBC Sessions Poster
Some of Jimi Hendrix's live radio broadcasts for the BBC were released by Rykodisc in 1988 on Radio One, but The BBC Sessions, remastered and fleshed out into a two-disc completist's dream, is perhaps the best document of how the Experience sounded live in 1967. From blues stomps such as Muddy Waters's "Catfish Blues" to surly R&B vamps such as the three takes of Curtis Knight's "Driving South," Hendrix explores his roots with hardscrabble passion. Meanwhile, he pushes the psychedelic-pop spectrum with surprisingly rich versions of studio-tweaked numbers like "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp." There's plenty of slop--a stumbling jam with Stevie Wonder on "I Was Made to Love Her"--and lots of horsing around and awkward interview fragments. But in its balance of pop form, interstellar improv, R&B pedigree, and sheer charm, The BBC Sessions is about as accurate and honest a snapshot of the charismatic, still-pimply 24-year-old phenom as you're likely to hear. --James RotondiPop Music CDs
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