Biography

In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone else, combining his technical proficiency with frequent blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship. After working as a backup guitarist in the early 1960s, he launched a solo career in 1967 with the psychedelic debut record, Are You Experienced? The follow-ups Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland were more diffuse and experimental. Hendrix later formed the Band of Gypsies to pursue funkier directions, and recorded an erratic live album with the new lineup. Unfortunately, his career was cut short by a fatal overdose in 1970. ~ Richie Unterberger & Sean Westergaard

Top Tracks

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• (my Girl) She's A Fox

• All Along The Watchtower

• Angel

• Beginnings

• Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

• Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

• Castles Made Of Sand

• Catfish Blues

• Crosstown Traffic

• Day Tripper

• Dolly Dagger

• Drivin' South [live In Paris 1/29/68]

• Driving South

• Electric Church Red House

• Ezy Ryder

• Fire

• Foxey Lady

• Freedom

• Hear My Train A Comin'

• Hear My Train A Comin' (get My Heart Back Together)

• Hear My Train A Comin' [acoustic]

• Hear My Train A-comin'

• Hey Baby (new Rising Sun)

• Hey Joe

• Highway Chile

• I Don't Live Today

• I Was Made To Love Her

• If 6 Was 9

• Instrumental

• It's Too Bad

• Izabella

• Johnny B. Goode

• Killing Floor

• Killing Floor [live In Paris 1/29/68]

• Little Wing

• Little Wing [live In Paris 1/29/68]

• Love Or Confusion [alternate Recording]

• Lullaby For The Summer

• Machine Gun

• Manic Depression

• Message To Love

• Messenger

• My Friend

• New Rising Sun [alternate Recording]

• Purple Haze

• Red House

• Room Full Of Mirrors

• She's So Fine

• Ships Passing Through The Night

• Soul Food (that's What I Like)

• Spanish Castle Magic

• Stepping Stone

• Stone Free

• Suddenly November Morning

• Sunshine Of Your Love

• Sweet Angel

• Takin' Care Of No Business

• Testify

• The New Rising Sun

• The Star Spangled Banner

• The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice

• The Wind Cries Mary

• Traveling With The Experience

• Utee

• Valleys Of Neptune

• Voodoo Child (slight Return)

• Voodoo Chile

• Who Knows

• Wild Thing

• Young/hendrix [alternate Recording]

Discography

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• War Heroes

  1972

• The Cry of Love

  Reprise

  1971