A few days after the Experience Hendrix tour rolls through Atlantic City, a new five-disc set anthology set arrives in stores, featuring rare recordings and outtakes.
Just in time for the national and now annual Experience Hendrix tour, featuring a multitude of artists paying tribute to the greatest electric guitar player of all time, including the late Hendrix's one-time bass player and long-time friend, Billy Cox, comes West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (Experience Hendrix/Legacy).
To be released Nov. 16, the 4 CD/1 DVD set, includes more than four hours of previously unheard or rare recordings from Hendrix's pre-Experience R&B tours and recordings with such acts as the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, and King Curtis, to hotel-room recording sessions (featuring an unearthed gem: a 1968 version of the Bob Dylan-Richard Manuel penned "Tears of Rage," written a year prior and recorded during Dylan and the Band's Basement Tapes sessions in West Saugerties, N.Y., as a demo.
(Below: the new five-disc set)
Recordings start from 1964 — the song "Testify" with the Isley Brothers through 1970's unreleased "Suddenly Sunday Morning," a song recorded the spring before Hendrix died in September 1970 in his Greenwhich Village apartment.
On "Tears of Rage," a song Bob Dylan has played in concert a few times over the past 20 years, Paul Caruso lends his harmonica playing and background vocals. The box set's amazingly inclusive and comprehensive liner notes note that Hendrix was an admirer of Dylan — as has been known for a long time — and that his recordings of Dylan's songs include "All Along the Watchtower," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" "Drifter's Escape" (recorded in 1970) and the recently discovered version of "Tears of Rage," which appears on Disc Two of the set.
The set also features outtakes and previously unissued recordings from the recording sessions of Hendrix's studio albums, including Are You Experienced?; Axis: Bold As Love; and Electric Ladyland.
The DVD enclosed with the set is called Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child and is a new 90-minute documentary directed by multiple Grammy winner Bob Smeaton, whose previous music docs include Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings, and Band of Gypsys.
The Experience Hendrix tour comes to Caesars Atlantic City Saturday, Nov. 13. This is the first year that the tour has relaunched in the same calendar year. This year's line-up includes Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Steve Vai, Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Eric Johnson, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Chris Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble and The Slide Brothers a/k/a Chuck and Darick Campbell of Sacred Steel.
Read about 2007's Experience Hendrix tour in Atlantic City including an interview with participant and former Howlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin here.
Visit the official Jimi Hendrix Web site here.
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1. johnny said... on Nov 3, 2010 at 04:44PM
“I've heard the version of "tears of Rage" and its fantastic. Could be one of the best Dylan covers I've ever heard!!!”