Miami Pop Festival (Jimi Hendrix Experience album)

Miami Pop Festival
Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released November 5, 2013
Recorded Miami Pop Festival, Gulfstream Park, Hallandale, Florida, May 18, 1968
Genre Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues rock
Length 59:36
Label Sony/Legacy (no. 8883769922)
Producer Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

People, Hell and Angels
(2013)		 Miami Pop Festival
(2013)

Miami Pop Festival is a posthumous live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, documenting their May 18, 1968 performance at the Miami Pop Festival. It features eight songs recorded during their evening performance, along with two afternoon-show performances. The album was released on November 5, 2013, in conjunction with the Jimi Hendrix video documentary, Hear My Train A Comin'.[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

A review by Allmusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars, noting that "the recording is clean and full of detail... and the Experience sound quite good... but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release".[2]

Charts

Year Chart Position
2013 Billboard Top 200 Albums[3] 39
2013 Les Charts (France)[4] 162

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Introduction"    1:53
2. "Hey Joe"  Billy Roberts 6:22
3. "Foxey Lady"  Jimi Hendrix 4:32
4. "Tax Free"  Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson 8:20
5. "Fire"  Hendrix 2:47
6. "Hear My Train A Comin'"  Hendrix 7:41
7. "I Don't Live Today"  Hendrix 4:49
8. "Red House"  Hendrix 12:06
9. "Purple Haze"  Hendrix 4:18
10. "Fire (afternoon show)"  Hendrix 3:07
11. "Foxey Lady (afternoon show)"  Hendrix 4:55
Total length:
 59:36

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ "News: Jimi Hendrix 'Hear My Train A Comin'' Documentary & 'Miami Pop Festival' Album to Be Released November 5". JimiHendrix.com. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. September 9, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Demming, Mark. "Miami Pop Festival — Album Review". Allmusic. Rovi Corp. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Jimi Hendrix — Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corp. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Jimi Hendrix in the French Charts". lescharts.com (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 10, 2014.