Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

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Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix
Released	September 16, 1997 (UK) November 3, 1998 (US)
Recorded	October 1966 - October 1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock, Psychedelic soul, blues-rock, hard rock
Length	73:32
Label	MCA
Producer	Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix
Professional reviews
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Jimi Hendrix chronology
The Ultimate Experience (1993) Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997) Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix (2003)

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is the definitive career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best known music from 1966 to 1970. Issued in Europe in 1997, it saw North American release a year later. A healthy seller, it reached #10 in the UK and #133 in the US where it ultimately went platinum. It is noted as one of the most successful posthumous greatest hits albums ever released for any single artist or otherwise.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

1. "Purple Haze" – 2:52
2. "Fire" – 2:43
3. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:20
4. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 3:30
5. "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan) – 3:59
6. "Stone Free" – 3:36
7. "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:19
8. "Manic Depression" – 3:42
9. "Little Wing" – 2:25
10. "If 6 Was 9" – 5:34
11. "Foxy Lady" – 3:19
12. "Bold As Love" – 4:11
13. "Castles Made of Sand" – 2:47
14. "Red House" – 3:50
15. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 5:12
16. "Freedom" – 3:25
17. "Night Bird Flying" – 3:50
18. "Angel" – 4:22
19. "Dolly Dagger" – 4:45
20. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Key, Smith) – 3:46 [Recorded live at Woodstock]

• Tracks 1 - 15 are performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
• Tracks 1,2,3,4,6,8,11 and 14 are from the album Are You Experienced?.
• Tracks 9,10,12 and 13 are from the album Axis: Bold as Love.
• Tracks 5,7 and 15 are from the album Electric Ladyland.
• Tracks 16,17,18 and 19 are from the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
• Track 20 is from the album Live at Woodstock.

• The version of "Red House" found here derives from a different take than the one found on the UK edition of Are You Experienced.

[edit] Personnel

• Jimi Hendrix - guitar, vocals, bass, piano
• Mitch Mitchell - drums
• Noel Redding - bass, vocals
• Billy Cox - bass guitar, vocals
• Buddy Miles - drums

[edit] Bonus Disc

The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks:

1. "Highway Chile" - 3:41
2. "Gloria" (Morrison) - 8:54
3. "It's Too Bad" - 8:53
4. "Spanish Castle Magic" - 5:50
5. "Hear My Train A Comin'" - 6:58
6. "Lover Man" - 2:58
7. "I Don't Live Today" (Live) - 6:34
8. "Purple Haze" (Live) - 4:03