Recorded between 1966 and 1970, they feature the master guitarist stretching the boundaries of electric blues in both live and studio settings. Besides several Hendrixblues-based originals, it includes covers of Albert King and Muddy Waters classics, as well as a 1967 acoustic version of his composition “Hear My Train a Comin’.” - Richie Unterberger / Allmusic Guide (4/5 Stars) - Blues is a posthumous compilation album by musician Jimi Hendrix, released April 26, 1994, on MCA Records. The album contains eleven blues songs recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970. Out of these eleven, six were previously unreleased. The tracks Read Full BioRecorded between 1966 and 1970, they feature the master guitarist stretching the boundaries of electric blues in both live and studio settings. Besides several Hendrixblues-based originals, it includes covers of Albert King and Muddy Waters classics, as well as a 1967 acoustic version of his composition “Hear My Train a Comin’.”
- Richie Unterberger / Allmusic Guide (4/5 Stars) -
Blues is a posthumous compilation album by musician Jimi Hendrix, released April 26, 1994, on MCA Records. The album contains eleven blues songs recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970. Out of these eleven, six were previously unreleased. The tracks include seven of Hendrix’s compositions along with covers of famous blues songs such as “Born Under a Bad Sign” and “Mannish Boy”. Most of the album’s material consists of leftover studio tapes that Hendrix might have never intended to release.
Compiled by MCA and released in 1994, Blues was met with favorable criticism and multiple chart success, selling over 500,000 copies in its first two years of release. On February 6, 2001, Blues was certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was re-released on Experience Hendrix Records in 1998, following the Hendrix family’s acquisition of the musician’s recordings.
Music
The opening song “Hear My Train A-Comin’” (aka (by Hendrix) “Getting My Heart Back Together Again”)) is a Hendrix original that he often played live in concert, particularly in 1969 and 1970. The song was from a long lost master tape of Hendrix alone playing a 12 string acoustic right hand guitar, strung for left hand and singing in a delta blues manner. This live studio performance was filmed for, and included in the film See My Music Talking, and later included in the 1973 documentary Jimi Hendrix and accompanying soundtrack LP. The last song on Blues is a live version of “Hear My Train A-Comin’” recorded on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Theater that had previously been released on the posthumous Rainbow Bridge album in 1971.
A different version of “Hear My Train A-Comin’” was included on the posthumous 1975 album Midnight Lightning and was considered somewhat controversial since producer Alan Douglas used session musicians to augment Hendrix’ guitar and Mitch Mitchell’s drums (overdubbing the bass guitar in the process). Another studio version from February 1969 was included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set in 2000.
“Born Under a Bad Sign” is an instrumental jam of the Albert King number (performed by Band of Gypsys). “Red House” is the original (mono) take from the European version of Are You Experienced, but minus the outro chat (previously unavailable in USA & Canada). Another take (stereo) from a different session was released on the USA version of the 1969 compilation album Smash Hits. On this version Redding plays electric guitar tuned down to resemble a bass. “Catfish Blues” is from a Dutch TV show Hoepla. Hendrix uses the first two verses from Muddy Waters “Rollin’ Stone” (which is based on older versions usually with “Catfish” in the title) and the last verse is from Muddy’s “Still a Fool” itself based on “Roll and Tumble Blues” by Hambone Willie etc.
“Voodoo Chile Blues” is another creation of Alan Douglas, recorded during the sessions that produced the finished track, “Voodoo Chile”, for the critically acclaimed Electric Ladyland album. This track is made up of two different takes of the song that were edited and joined together in order to come up with one consistent track. “Mannish Boy” is actually a hybrid of Muddy Waters’s “Mannish Boy” and Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man”, it is a similar edited studio creation that combines several takes. “Once I Had a Woman” is a slightly longer edited version of Hendrix’s slow blues song. The band starts to jam during the second half of the long song and then a fade out follows. “Bleeding Heart” is a cover of the Elmore James number, performed here by Band of Gypsys. “Jelly 292″ is actually take 2 of the song “Jam 292″ (the name on the tape box) which appeared on the 1974 European only LP “Loose Ends”. It is an uptempo jam based on Duke Ellington’s “Dooji Wooji”. “Electric Church Red House” is a jam from TTG studios in 1968 featuring a group introduction by Hendrix (lifted from another, different jam at TTG) and Lee Michaels on organ.
Musicians
Jimi Hendrix – guitars, vocals
Billy Cox – bass on “Born Under a Bad Sign”, “Mannish Boy”, “Once I Had a Woman”, “Bleeding Heart”, “Jelly 292″ and “Hear My Train a Comin’ (Electric)”
Noel Redding – bass on “Red House”, “Catfish Blues” and “Electric Church Red House”
Mitch Mitchell – drums on “Red House”, “Catfish Blues”, “Voodoo Chile Blues”, “Jelly 292″, “Electric Church Red House” and “Hear My Train a Comin’ (Electric)”
Buddy Miles – drums on “Born Under a Bad Sign”, “Mannish Boy”, “Once I Had a Woman”, “Bleeding Heart”
Jack Casady – bass on “Voodoo Chile Blues”
Steve Winwood – organ on “Voodoo Chile Blues”
Lee Michaels – organ on “Electric Church Red House”
Sharon Layne – organ on “Jelly 292″
Additional personnel
Alan Douglas – production
Bruce Gary – production
Mark Linett – engineering
Joe Gastwirt – mastering
Rob O’Connor – artwork, design
Richard Bull – artwork, design
Michael J. Fairchild – liner notes
- Richie Unterberger / Allmusic Guide (4/5 Stars) -
Blues is a posthumous compilation album by musician Jimi Hendrix, released April 26, 1994, on MCA Records. The album contains eleven blues songs recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970. Out of these eleven, six were previously unreleased. The tracks include seven of Hendrix’s compositions along with covers of famous blues songs such as “Born Under a Bad Sign” and “Mannish Boy”. Most of the album’s material consists of leftover studio tapes that Hendrix might have never intended to release.
Compiled by MCA and released in 1994, Blues was met with favorable criticism and multiple chart success, selling over 500,000 copies in its first two years of release. On February 6, 2001, Blues was certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was re-released on Experience Hendrix Records in 1998, following the Hendrix family’s acquisition of the musician’s recordings.
Music
The opening song “Hear My Train A-Comin’” (aka (by Hendrix) “Getting My Heart Back Together Again”)) is a Hendrix original that he often played live in concert, particularly in 1969 and 1970. The song was from a long lost master tape of Hendrix alone playing a 12 string acoustic right hand guitar, strung for left hand and singing in a delta blues manner. This live studio performance was filmed for, and included in the film See My Music Talking, and later included in the 1973 documentary Jimi Hendrix and accompanying soundtrack LP. The last song on Blues is a live version of “Hear My Train A-Comin’” recorded on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Theater that had previously been released on the posthumous Rainbow Bridge album in 1971.
A different version of “Hear My Train A-Comin’” was included on the posthumous 1975 album Midnight Lightning and was considered somewhat controversial since producer Alan Douglas used session musicians to augment Hendrix’ guitar and Mitch Mitchell’s drums (overdubbing the bass guitar in the process). Another studio version from February 1969 was included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set in 2000.
“Born Under a Bad Sign” is an instrumental jam of the Albert King number (performed by Band of Gypsys). “Red House” is the original (mono) take from the European version of Are You Experienced, but minus the outro chat (previously unavailable in USA & Canada). Another take (stereo) from a different session was released on the USA version of the 1969 compilation album Smash Hits. On this version Redding plays electric guitar tuned down to resemble a bass. “Catfish Blues” is from a Dutch TV show Hoepla. Hendrix uses the first two verses from Muddy Waters “Rollin’ Stone” (which is based on older versions usually with “Catfish” in the title) and the last verse is from Muddy’s “Still a Fool” itself based on “Roll and Tumble Blues” by Hambone Willie etc.
“Voodoo Chile Blues” is another creation of Alan Douglas, recorded during the sessions that produced the finished track, “Voodoo Chile”, for the critically acclaimed Electric Ladyland album. This track is made up of two different takes of the song that were edited and joined together in order to come up with one consistent track. “Mannish Boy” is actually a hybrid of Muddy Waters’s “Mannish Boy” and Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man”, it is a similar edited studio creation that combines several takes. “Once I Had a Woman” is a slightly longer edited version of Hendrix’s slow blues song. The band starts to jam during the second half of the long song and then a fade out follows. “Bleeding Heart” is a cover of the Elmore James number, performed here by Band of Gypsys. “Jelly 292″ is actually take 2 of the song “Jam 292″ (the name on the tape box) which appeared on the 1974 European only LP “Loose Ends”. It is an uptempo jam based on Duke Ellington’s “Dooji Wooji”. “Electric Church Red House” is a jam from TTG studios in 1968 featuring a group introduction by Hendrix (lifted from another, different jam at TTG) and Lee Michaels on organ.
Musicians
Jimi Hendrix – guitars, vocals
Billy Cox – bass on “Born Under a Bad Sign”, “Mannish Boy”, “Once I Had a Woman”, “Bleeding Heart”, “Jelly 292″ and “Hear My Train a Comin’ (Electric)”
Noel Redding – bass on “Red House”, “Catfish Blues” and “Electric Church Red House”
Mitch Mitchell – drums on “Red House”, “Catfish Blues”, “Voodoo Chile Blues”, “Jelly 292″, “Electric Church Red House” and “Hear My Train a Comin’ (Electric)”
Buddy Miles – drums on “Born Under a Bad Sign”, “Mannish Boy”, “Once I Had a Woman”, “Bleeding Heart”
Jack Casady – bass on “Voodoo Chile Blues”
Steve Winwood – organ on “Voodoo Chile Blues”
Lee Michaels – organ on “Electric Church Red House”
Sharon Layne – organ on “Jelly 292″
Additional personnel
Alan Douglas – production
Bruce Gary – production
Mark Linett – engineering
Joe Gastwirt – mastering
Rob O’Connor – artwork, design
Richard Bull – artwork, design
Michael J. Fairchild – liner notes
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Hear My Train A Comin'
Jimi Hendrix Lyrics
Hear my train a comin'
Hey
Wait around the train station
Waitin' for that train
Take me
Take me away
From this lonesome time
A whole lot of people put me through a lot of changes
And my girl done put me down
Tears burnin' me
Burnin' me
Way down in my soul
Way down in my heart
It's too bad you don't love no more, child
Too bad you and me have to part, have to part baby
Have to part
Hear my train is coming
Hear my train is coming
Hear my train is coming
Hear my train is coming
Gonna make it bigger
With all that's still in my heart
Gonna be a magic boy ooh child
Gonna come back and buy this town
An' put it all in my shoe
In my shoe baby
You make love to me one more time girl
So I give a piece to you baby
Hey hey hey
Hear my train is coming
Hear my train is coming
Here come the rest of my soul
Movin' through the washer baby
Hear my train a comin' yeah yeah
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Jimi Hendrix
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sabata414
"When the power of love overcomes the love for power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
Jonathan Britt
@Krypten_Bekk yea too bad you had to look that up
Jason Graham
@Quinton Day alright I love this one
Jason Graham
So never
mr z
If you want to change the world you have to get your head together first.. another quote from Jimmy
David Thompson
Damn right
Michael Ulbricht
There's definitely something divine about Jimi's playing. From his debut album until his untimely death he unleashed stunning masterpiece after stunning masterpiece. Nobody's even close to him. You had to be there to truly appreciate just how phenomenal he was and still is...Peace y'all!
bruce papp
My take is that it's no coincidence he's from the area in Washington state near the Channelled Scablands....a scene of the near obliteration of human kind 13,800 years ago. Possible cause earth being too close to a comet debris trail.....apocalyptic obliteration raining down like fiery serpents from the heavens...the all encompassing obliteration rebirth and redemption that can be heard and felt in Jimis music... body mind and soul.
Alfred Estrada
Yes he was special
chessman19
no one ever like him