Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix
Released	September 16, 1997 (1997-09-16)
Recorded	October 1966 – October 1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock, Psychedelic soul, blues-rock, hard rock
Length	73:32
Language	English
Label	MCA
Producer	Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix
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Nine to the Universe (1980) Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997)

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best known music from 1966 to 1970 released on September 16, 1997 in the United Kingdom and on November 3, 1998 in the United States.

Reception

It reached #10^{[citation needed]} in the UK and #133^{[citation needed]} in the US where it ultimately went platinum.^{[citation needed]} It is noted as one of the most successful posthumous greatest hits albums ever released for an artist.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

1. "Purple Haze" – 2:52
2. "Fire" – 2:43
3. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:20
4. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:30
5. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) – 3:59
6. "Stone Free" – 3:36
7. "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:19
8. "Manic Depression" – 3:42
9. "Little Wing" – 2:25
10. "If 6 Was 9" – 5:34
11. "Foxy Lady" – 3:19
12. "Bold as Love" – 4:11
13. "Castles Made of Sand" – 2:47
14. "Red House" – 3:50
15. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 5:12
16. "Freedom" – 3:25
17. "Night Bird Flying" – 3:50
18. "Angel" – 4:22
19. "Dolly Dagger" – 4:45
20. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Key, Smith) – 3:46 [Recorded live at Woodstock]

Bonus disc

The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks:

1. "Highway Chile" – 3:41
2. "Gloria" (Morrison) – 8:54
3. "It's Too Bad" – 8:53
4. "Spanish Castle Magic" – 5:50
5. "Hear My Train A-Comin'" – 6:58
6. "Lover Man" – 2:58
7. "I Don't Live Today" (Live) – 6:34
8. "Purple Haze" (Live) – 4:03

• Tracks 1–15 are performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 and 14 are from the album Are You Experienced?.
• Tracks 9, 10, 12 and 13 are from the album Axis: Bold as Love.
• Tracks 5, 7 and 15 are from the album Electric Ladyland.
• Tracks 16, 17, 18 and 19 are from the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
• Track 20 is from the album Live at Woodstock.

• The version of "Red House" found here derives from a different take than the one found on the UK edition of Are You Experienced.

Personnel

• Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals, bass guitar, piano

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Mitch Mitchell – drums
• Noel Redding – bass guitar, vocals

Additional musicians

• Billy Cox - bass guitar, vocals
• Buddy Miles - drums