Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Greatest hits album by Jimi Hendrix
Released	1997 (1997)
Recorded	October 1966 – October 1970
Genre	Rock
Length	73:32
Label	Legacy
Producer	Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix chronology
First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997)First Rays of the New Rising Sun1997 Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997) South Saturn Delta (1997)South Saturn Delta1997

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a compilation album of Jimi Hendrix songs released in 1997. The single compact disc collects 20 songs spanning his career from his first recordings with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966 to his last with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell in 1970.

It is the first comprehensive collection of Hendrix's songs overseen by Experience Hendrix, a family company that took over management of his recording legacy in 1997. Fifteen songs with the Experience are included and five with Hendrix's later groups, often referred to as Gypsy Suns and Rainbows and the Cry of Love touring band. No songs from the Band of Gypsys lineup with Buddy Miles are included.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Q	[3]

In a review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder calls it the near "perfect single-CD Jimi Hendrix anthology".^[2] He notes that includes some of Hendrix's noteworthy later work, but lacks a couple of songs from his earlier Smash Hits compilation.^[2]

The album reached number 18 in the UK^[4] and number 133 in the US.^[5] In 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it as "gold" for selling over 500,000 copies.^[6]

Track listing

The titles and running times are taken from the original Experience Hendrix CD release. Other releases may show different information.

All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Bonus disc The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks, taken from The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set (2000).

All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix except as noted.

Personnel

• Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals, bass guitar, piano
• Mitch Mitchell – drums: all tracks, except "It's Too Bad"
• Noel Redding – bass guitar, vocals: all tracks, except 16–20, "It's Too Bad", and "Lover Man"
• Billy Cox – bass guitar, vocals: 16–20 and "Lover Man"
• Buddy Miles – drums: "It's Too Bad"

Photograph of front cover

• David Montgomery

References