Jimi HendrixBest Jimi Hendrix Albums Ranked

West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology

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9.0

“For Jimi Hendrix fanatics, the selling point of this four-disc set is a full CD of songs on which the guitarist doesn’t sing lead and barely solos. Instead, he plays sideman to Little Richard, Don Covay and others on 15 R&B smokers. The tracks offer glimpses of a prodigy straining at the bit: The hot-shit […]”

People, Hell and Angels

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8.0

“Jimi played guitar, jamming good with Billy and Buddy and the Experience – no, wait, that was Ziggy. But Hendrix was almost certainly a model for Bowie’s space crawler, an electric deity who sacrificed himself as he took it all too far. His music was haunted by death from the start – “Will I live tomorrow?” he asked on his first album – and he chased after it at a furious pace, recording more than”

Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts (Live)

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8.0

“This two-disc collection draws on four monumental sets that Jimi Hendrix performed with the Band of Gypsys (bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles) at New York’s Fillmore East on December 31st, 1969, and January 1st, 1970. Gripped by drug abuse, beset by contractual problems, leading a new, post-Experience trio, burying the Sixties, ushering in […]”