Essential Hendrix

Do you love Hendrix? Do you love The Blues? Then what are you waiting for?! You need this album! Hear Jimi play soulful acoustic guitar on the first cut, circa 1967 Hear My Train a Comin'. Want to hear him play Albert King's classic Born Under a Bad Sign? Check it out - totally sublime - even better than Cream's version. Truly. How about the hard core blues standard sounding Red House, (omitted from the US version of Are you Experienced - too raw?? did the Allman Brothers listen to this before they recorded Live at the Fillmore? Uh - kinda sounds like it.) This is THE Hendrix album for blues lovers, and THE blues album for Hendrix lovers.

GREAT electric blues!

This is definately one of my favorite Hendrix CD's, along with the Experience 4-CD box set! Outstanding blues played on this disc. If you are a Hendrix fan, and crave electric blues as much as I do, this is a absolutely must have!!

The legends are true

I had been saying for a while that the legends of artists like Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles had surpassed their actual abilities.

Everybody's been saying that Hendrix is the greatest guitarist ever for so long that it's become automatically accepted as true.

Well, after hearing "Blues," I'm convinced. My first real experience with Hendrix was from a tribute album, "Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix." That showed me there is a lot more to Jimi's music than the acid rock and Woodstock performance that he is most well-known for. After that I figured I should hear some of his original stuff. He was a student of the guitar and could do it all -- rock, R&B, funk and as I learned on this album, blues. Tracks 6 and 9 were my favorites.

Blues music was made for the guitar and the guitar was made for Jimi.

Maybe I need to check out some Presley and Beatles now.