release on 15/11/2010
Disc: 1 1. Foxey Lady 2. Alexis Korner Introduction 3. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 4. Rhythm And Blues World Service 5. Hoochie Coochie Man, (I'm Your) - (Alexis Koerner) 6. Traveling With The Experience 7. Driving South 8. Fire 9. Little Miss Lover 10. Introducing The Experience 11. The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp 12. Catfish Blues 13. Stone Free 14. Love Or Confusion 15. Hey Joe 16. Hound Dog 17. Driving South 18. Hear My Train A Comin'
Disc: 2 1. Purple Haze 2. Killing Floor 3. Radio One 4. Wait Until Tomorrow 5. Day Tripper 6. Spanish Castle Magic 7. Jammin' 8. I Was Made To Love Her 9. Foxey Lady 10. A Brand New Sound 11. Hey Joe 12. Manic Depression 13. Driving South 14. Hear My Train A Comin' 15. A Happening For Lulu 16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 17. Lulu Introduction 18. Hey Joe 19. Sunshine Of Your Love
Some of Jimi Hendrix's live radio broadcasts for the BBC were released by Rykodisc in 1988 on Radio One, but The BBC Sessions, remastered and fleshed out into a two-disc completist's dream, is perhaps the best document of how the Experience sounded live in 1967. From blues stomps such as Muddy Waters's "Catfish Blues" to surly R&B vamps such as the three takes of Curtis Knight's "Driving South," Hendrix explores his roots with hardscrabble passion. Meanwhile, he pushes the psychedelic-pop spectrum with surprisingly rich versions of studio-tweaked numbers like "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp." There's plenty of slop--a stumbling jam with Stevie Wonder on "I Was Made to Love Her"--and lots of horsing around and awkward interview fragments. But in its balance of pop form, interstellar improv, R&B pedigree, and sheer charm, The BBC Sessions is about as accurate and honest a snapshot of the charismatic, still-pimply 24-year-old phenom as you're likely to hear. --James Rotondi New Musical Express
This 37-track double-CD collection of the JHE's BBC Sessions includes a smattering of "anoraks only" naff tracks but also contains killer versions of classics such as "Driving South," "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Chile." You also get devastating interpretations of "Day Tripper," "Fire" and a blasting 90 mph "Killing Floor...." And if that wasn't enough, we also get a bizarre psychedelic blues reworking of a 1960s Radio 1 jingle.