Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix brings together many of the defining recordings from Jimi Hendrix's extraordinary career, showcasing the revolutionary guitar playing, songwriting and studio experimentation that transformed the sound of rock music.
Featuring classics such as "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", "The Wind Cries Mary", "Foxy Lady", "Little Wing", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and Hendrix's celebrated interpretation of "All Along the Watchtower", the collection spans his work with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as well as recordings from the later stages of his career.
Hendrix combined blues, rock, psychedelia and soul with an approach to the electric guitar that was unlike anything audiences had heard before. His innovative use of feedback, distortion and studio effects expanded the possibilities of the instrument, while beneath the experimentation lay an exceptional melodic instinct and an increasingly accomplished songwriter.
Experience Hendrix provides an excellent overview of a remarkable body of work and an ideal introduction to one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Decades after his death, Hendrix's recordings retain their extraordinary energy, imagination and ability to astonish.