Experience Hendrix - The Best Of Jimi Hendrix (CD)
Experience Hendrix brings together the major singles with a stack of majestic album tracks and the career-defining live Woodstock version of "The Star Spangled Banner" on a fat 20-tracker. While best used as a sampler to direct new listeners to the immortal Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, and so on, the CD (which supplants the short-lived Ultimate Experience collection) does hang together as a listen. Its blend of Hendrix the rocker and Hendrix the underrated soul man is suggestive, painting a picture of a multifaceted genius and transcending its plainly mercenary origins. In the end, its effect--like that of all Hendrix's best records--is to remind us of a Jimi very, very much alive.
01 Purple haze 02 Fire 03 The wind cries mary 04 Hey joe 05 All along the watchtower 06 Stone free 07 Crosstown traffic 08 Manic depression 09 Little wing 10 If 6 was 9 11 Foxey lady 12 Bold as love
13 Castles made of sand 14 Red house 15 Voodoo child (slight return) 16 Freedom 17 Night bird flying 18 Angel 19 Dolly dagger 20 Star spangled banner (live at woodstock)