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 enlarge | Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Label: Mca
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 2945
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 008811106027
UPC: 008811106027
EAN: 0008811106027
ASIN: B000002OSK
Release Date: April 26, 1994
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 An amazing album... January 15, 1999
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
This compilation of most of Hendrix's best blues will blow the listener away. His heart-felt lyrics as well as incredible guitar solos add a very different dimension to blues music. Tracks such as Hear My Train A Comin' (both acoustic and electric versions) provide incredible examples of why Hendrix is considered the greatest guitarist ever. His cover of the Muddy Waters tune Mannish Boy is wonderful. Songs like Once I had a Woman and Electric Church Red House will keep you listening for years to come. For the first time listener of Hendrix, I guarantee this album will become a stepping stone to a new and awesome arena of music. Anyone who appreciates Hendrix, rock, blues, or music in general should have this album.
Jimi Hendrix - Blues: Like Thor with an additional hammer September 20, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Its bittersweet that Jimi Hendrix's music is continuing to be released over 30 years after his sudden death. I'm not going to go into the arguments others are about who released this under what label and when. This album means a lot to me because it is Jimi Hendrix, and they are all tracks I am listening to for the first time. Jimi's style, imagination, and overall vision was coupled with his extreme gift at playing the guitar with such magic that anything I can hear that he played is truly "music to my ears". Though a guitar is a tool for which a musician can express ones self, Jimi made it talk, scream, shiver, and shout. There are sounds that one can hear, and then there are sounds that you FEEL. This is how I feel about his music, its something for the soul. Though he was not known primarily as a blues guitarist, every great guitarist has some base with the genre of blues, and its here on the album "Blues" that we get to hear Jimi play the blues With those awesome electric licks that only his guitar can really do. Again, it sounds like magic when the man plays.
Eleven tracks in all, there isn't one on here that does not, in my mind, garner repeated listening. Blues is usually a music you play either during a certain mood, or to invoke that mood. Kick back, down on your luck, heavy and groovy all at the same time. Track three is "Red House" and has some classic solos on here that are trademark Hendrix. The vocal performance on here drones on with eclectic fun and brings back some memories from tracks I like on "The ultimate experience". Track four is "Catfish Blues" and has a great rocking beat to it. Despite what I've seen others say, I don't find the sound quality bad at all. This is a guy who died in 1970, so anything from the studio archives that is re-released may not be your bread and butter, but its Hendrix, and that's good enough for me.
Track eight is a slower paced song along the lines of true traditional Blues sound. What is eerie with that is that you don't think of it maybe as a "blues song" but something that just got left off of one of his studio releases from earlier times. Before I go, I have to mention that track one is "Hear My Train Comin'" and is done by Jimi on an acoustic guitar. It's a truly magical sound (I use that word a lot, but how else do you describe his sound?) that is epic in feeling. This is true art, my friends, and as always with Jimi's songs, he can be a true storyteller with his vocals and imagery just as much as he was skilled on the six string. Jimi is gone but millions around the world still enjoy his music, and I am glad that his family was able to get back the rights to his music and re-release much of it, whether heard before or undiscovered up to now. If you like Blues, Electric guitar, or Hendrix in general, you might take a chance and check out this album, I did and will never regret it, nor forget it.
Essential addition to any Hendrix collection.. August 27, 2004
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I actually still have this only on tape. However, it is perhaps one of the best Hendrix albums, and is certainly the best compilation released after his death. MCA got this one right, releasing previously unreleased tracks.
Including Jimi's versions of classic standards like "Mannish Boy," "Catfish Blues," and "Born Under a Bad Sign" are what elevate this to an essential album not just for Hendrix fans, but blues fans at large. The acoustic "Hear my Train a Comin'" is absolutely beautiful, and I think it's a shame that there isn't an acoustic Hendrix album out there somewhere.
The album also contains a couple of live tracks, and you really get a broad sense of how Hendrix approached the blues, how much it meant to him, and simply how darn good he was at making it his own. Some of the more psychedelic guitar solos on the live tracks may not appeal to some listeners, but this is a great album overall.
Many of the compilations released after Jimi's death, on whatever label, have been either badly produced, released fairly mediocre music, or are just incessantly repackaged *best of* compilations. This is NOT one of those. Blues fans, young Hendrix fans, and old school fans will all find this album absolutely amazing, and a testament to Hendrix's talent.
On another note, avoid the *Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues* Hendrix release. It has only two unreleased tracks, while the rest of it is merely taken from either this release or *Electric Ladyland*.
The ultimate electric blues album March 3, 2000
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is the best electic blues album I have ever heard, bar none. Jimi Hendrix was a true master of the art of guitar. He could do (and DID) just about anything with a guitar. This is some of his best work of all time. He takes the classic blues from artists like Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and others and transforms them into screaming, voodoo tributes to the original artists. I really liked the inclusion of the alternate version of "Red House," as well as the acoustic "Hear My Train A Comin'." But the best songs by far are "Mannish Boy," where he fuses the Muddy Waters and Bo Diddly, and "I Had a Woman," a sloooow, rolling blues that expands as it progresses. If you're a Hendrix fan, you need this album. If you're a blues fan, you need this album. It takes the blues and rock, for that matter, to a whole new level of greatness and enjoyment.
 Alan Douglas no --- Experience Hendrix yes. June 18, 2000
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
For those that don't know, Alan Douglas (aka, The Butcher, or the Bungler) had more control over this record than the prominent Experience Hendrix estate; the latter is Jimi's family. Douglas was the infamous producer of Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning. These two albums were originally recorded by Hendrix alone, however, Douglas assigned session musicians to play around the source; thus giving a wall of sound of new instruments and singers. Altho it seemed like a clever idea, the releases were highly criticized for such a feat, especially since some of Jimi's guitar tracks were erased and replaced by some goon. Jimi's Blues is another example of Douglas at his butchery. For Instance, there's a track called "Voodoo Chile Blues" which is the same recording on ELL but Douglas has edited it and gave it his own moniker. "Once I Had A Woman" was previously released on ML, however, here it is remixed and containing several different rhythm tracks. "Jelly 292" was a basic jam, originally released on Loose Ends, this time --- ". . . that bloody Douglas!" On the contrary, there are some highlights to this CD: "Born under bad sign" is truly a rare gem; "Hear My Train" the acoustic take, is a beautiful introduction to the album (sometimes I wonder 'why did Jimi prefer electric! '); and "Catfish Blues," a Muddy Waters original, is the kind of song you'd like to pick-up-that-guitar-and-jam to. Considering the few decent tracks on this CD, I think if Douglas hadn't tampered with the majority of them, maybe the true Hendrix fans would hear the songs the way Jimi intended them to be. I'd say, leave all unreleased recordings in the hands of Experience Hendrix estate, and let them figure it out. A 4 star rating for those untampered tracks.
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