Audio CD review:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions

Band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Title: BBC Sessions Rating: Release Date: 02 June, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Foxey Lady 2: Alexis Korner Introduction 3: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 4: Rhythm And Blues World Service 5: Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - (Alexis Koerner) 6: Traveling With The Experience 7: Driving South 8: Fire 9: Little Miss Lover 10: Introducing The Experience 11: The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp 12: Catfish Blues 13: Stone Free 14: Love Or Confusion 15: Hey Joe 16: Hound Dog 17: Driving South 18: Hear My Train A Comin' 19: Purple Haze 20: Killing Floor 21: Radio One 22: Wait Until Tomorrow 23: Day Tripper 24: Spanish Castle Magic 25: Jammin' 26: I Was Made To Love Her 27: Foxey Lady 28: A Brand New Sound 29: Hey Joe 30: Manic Depression 31: Driving South 32: Hear My Train A Comin' 33: A Happening For Lulu 34: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 35: Lulu Introduction 36: Hey Joe 37: Sunshine Of Your Love

Editoral Review 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. 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. 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 Rotondi .. You can see a complete list of all The Jimi Hendrix Experience discography, or go back to the The Jimi Hendrix Experience tabs