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Media Type: CD
Artist: HENDRIX,JIMI
Title: BLUES
Street Release Date: 04/26/1994
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Genre: ROCK/POP | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| April 26, 1994 | | Studio:
| Mca | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 130 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Hear My Train a Comin' [Acoustic] | | 2. | Born Under a Bad Sign - Jimi Hendrix, Bell, William [1] | | 3. | Red House | | 4. | Catfish Blues - Jimi Hendrix, Petway, Robert | | 5. | Voodoo Chile Blues | | 6. | Mannish Boy - Jimi Hendrix, Diddley, Bo | | 7. | Once I Had a Woman | | 8. | Bleeding Heart | | 9. | Jelly 292 | | 10. | Electric Church Red House | | 11. | Hear My Train a Comin' [Electric] | |
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 one of the few things Alan Douglas did right for JimiJul 03, 2010
Former Jimi Hendrix estate owner Alan Douglas comipled and produced this CD and is the ONLY Douglas item still available today.
The production couda had a tad more bass in it, being blues and all.
Decent song selections, although some blues gems performed by Jimi were omitted. This originall was to be a entire box set of blues, man would that have ever rocked!
A truly must own that focuses on what Jimi did the best...Pay the Blues!
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Absolutely BluesMar 29, 2010
Cliched and true, what Monk was to the piano, Satchmo was to the trumpet and Bird was to the sax, Hendrix was to the electric guitar. His closest competitors probably got lost somewhere between second and third base. His life and music were deeply rooted in the blues in which he extracted a concept. Fittingly, this extraordinary compilation results in his most perfectly conceptualized recording. Because he was so individualistic, every cut resonates with his stamp all over them.
He was one of the very few rock-era artists in which it was essential in hearing the same song twice or more. "Red House" was his most famous blues composition and was originally recorded in 1966. It's great here, but he refashioned this track in 1968 by augmenting the music to include organ and entitled it "Electric Church Red House". In performance and arrangement, it demonstrated his remarkable growth. This is the definitive studio treatment.
His melancholy guitar and vocal is emphasized on the heartbreaking "Once I Had A Woman". On this cut his blues oozes out and it seeps right into my blood. Ditto for both the drastically different versions of "Hear My Train A Comin'" which bracket this release. On the twelve-string acoustic opener it's a tour de force vocal that conveys the genuine despondency of a lonesome man. And the closer, initially released on 1971's long-vanished "Rainbow Bridge" LP, is blues-rock improvisation at its most impassioned and virtuosic. I nominate this reinvention as his finest moment beneath the sun.
He kept the integrity of the blues and took it to unforeseen heights. You knew he was on to something 'cos Top 40 wouldn't touch this stuff. Brush Clapton aside because Hendrix was the one "Born Under A Bad Sign".
1 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 guess what?Mar 24, 2010
JIMI HENDRIX basically didn't play the blues.
He may have played blues songs, but he didn't play the blues at all.
He did one song that could almost be called blues and that is the studio version of RED HOUSE.
Blues is John Lee Hooker and BB King.
There is no acoustic guitar, piano or harp anywhere on these tracks and Jimi had nothing even close to a BLUES VOICE. Big Joe Turner had a blues voice. Robert Plant has a blues voice...even Peter Gabriel has a more blues voice than Jimi.
God bless you Jimi but you never were a blues guy at heart...even if you loved them.
Ahmet will back me up on this...oh he passed away, God Bless You Ahmet.
Mick Jagger....you are a blues guy...I love 'ya
Cheers
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Red bluesFeb 11, 2010
Not essential, especially if you own your fill of live and compiled releases, but for the relatively low-grade collection sampler it is, few do the lifeless genre as much justice.
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Not a Blues CDJan 02, 2010
I like some of Hendrix's stuff a lot, but this is not one of his better efforts. It's certainly not a blues CD. There are some good tracks on it, but too many mediocre tracks. And lastly, it is NOT a blues CD.
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