Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
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Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection (2001, MCA Records
) is a two-disc set compilation. The first disc contains studio recordings and the second disc contains live recordings. It contains many alternate recordings of studio tracks, and previously unavailable and unreleased recordings. It contains an essay by Kurt Loder
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- Original Band Of Gypsys Single Version
+ Previously Unreleased
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
) is a two-disc set compilation. The first disc contains studio recordings and the second disc contains live recordings. It contains many alternate recordings of studio tracks, and previously unavailable and unreleased recordings. It contains an essay by Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary". He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos on...
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Disc one (Studio)
- Purple HazePurple Haze"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
– 2:50 - Hey JoeHey Joe"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
(RobertsBilly RobertsBilly Roberts is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe"...
) – 3:30 - The Wind Cries MaryThe Wind Cries MaryThe Wind Cries Mary is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience released as the band's third single, backed with "Highway Chile", on May 5, 1967. It reached no. 6 in the UK Charts. The track is an example of psychedelic blues-rock, as the song is in the key of F major, with a guitar solo primarily...
– 3:20 - Fire – 2:43
- Highway ChileHighway Chile"Highway Chile" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured as the B-side to their 1967 third United Kingdom single "The Wind Cries Mary"...
** (Alternate Recording) – 3:39 - Are You Experienced?Are You Experienced? (song)"Are You Experienced?" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience for their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced. The song was recorded on April 3, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, England; the songs "May This Be Love" and "Highway Chile" were recorded on...
– 4:14 - Burning of the Midnight LampBurning of the Midnight Lamp"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, first released as a mono single b/w "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" in the United Kingdom on August 19, 1967 . It later appeared on the band's final studio album, Electric Ladyland...
– 3:39 - Little WingLittle Wing"Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was first recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love...
– 2:24 - All Along the WatchtowerAll Along the Watchtower"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song, which has been included on most of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more...
** (Alternate Recording) (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 3:59 - Crosstown TrafficCrosstown Traffic (song)"Crosstown Traffic" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was the second single released from the album Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience...
– 2:12 - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"Voodoo Child " is the closing track on Electric Ladyland, the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The song is known for its wah-wah-heavy guitar work. It is #101 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs of all time....
– 5:12 - Spanish Castle MagicSpanish Castle Magic"Spanish Castle Magic" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Written by Jimi Hendrix and produced by Chas Chandler, it is the third track from their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love...
** (Alternate Recording) – 5:48 - Stone FreeStone Free"Stone Free" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, the first song he wrote. The Jimi Hendrix Experience first released it in December 1966 as the B-side of Hendrix's first single "Hey Joe." In December 1969 "Stone Free" was released as a single in the US, backed with "If 6 Was 9."The song is one of the few...
** (Alternate Recording) – 3:43 - Izabella- (Original Band Of Gypsys Single Version) – 2:46
- Stepping StoneStepping Stone (song)"Stepping Stone" is a song by American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 1972 third posthumous studio album War Heroes. It was originally released as a single in the United States backed with "Izabella" on April 8, 1970 – the last single released by Hendrix before his...
- (Original Band Of Gypsys Single Version) – 4:07 - AngelAngel (Jimi Hendrix song)"Angel" is the name of a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix, first released in February 1971 on the posthumous LP The Cry of Love. In April it was released as a single, which failed to chart...
– 4:21 - Dolly DaggerDolly Dagger"Dolly Dagger" is the name of a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. It was first released on 9 October 1971 on the posthumous LP Rainbow Bridge, and on 23 October it was released on a single to promote the LP, backed with a solo rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. It peaked at no. 74 on...
– 4:44 - Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) – 6:04
Disc two (Live)
- Fire* – (Winterland, San Francisco, CA, October 12, 1968) - 3:33
- Hey JoeHey Joe"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
* (RobertsBilly RobertsBilly Roberts is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe"...
) – (Winterland, San Francisco, CA, October 12, 1968) - 6:46 - I Don't Live Today – (Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles, CA, April 26, 1969) - 6:45
- Hear My Train A Comin'Hear My Train A Comin'"Hear My Train A Comin'" is a blues song written by Jimi Hendrix that he recorded several times between 1967 and 1970 but was not released until after his death...
– (Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, May 30, 1970) - 11:00 - Foxey Lady+ – (Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970) - 4:25
- Machine Gun – (Fillmore East, New York, NY, January 1, 1970) - 11:36
- Johnny B. GoodeJohnny B. Goode"Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song written and originally performed by American musician Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences peaking at #2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song is one of Chuck Berry's...
(BerryChuck BerryCharles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
) – (Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, May 30, 1970) - 4:45 - Red HouseRed House (song)"Red House" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and originally recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966. The song, a slow twelve-bar blues, "is one of the most traditional in sound and form of all his official recordings". It was developed during his pre-Experience days while Hendrix was...
* – (New York Pop Festival, Randalls Island, NY, July 17, 1970) - 8:00 - FreedomFreedom (Jimi Hendrix song)"Freedom" is a Jimi Hendrix song released in 1971 from the album The Cry of Love. The album was released posthumously in 1971 and became a major hit. This was the only single released from the album and was somewhat successful on the charts, reaching number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart...
* – (Isle Of Wight Festival, England, August 30, 1970) - 4:06 - Purple HazePurple Haze"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
– (San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, May 24, 1969) - 3:55 - The Star Spangled Banner (John Stafford SmithJohn Stafford SmithJohn Stafford Smith was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach....
) – (Woodstock Festival, Bethel, NY, August 18, 1969) - 3:43 - Wild Thing (TaylorChip TaylorJames Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...
)* – (Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey, CA, June 18, 1967) - 7:41
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- Alternate Recording
- Original Band Of Gypsys Single Version
- Previously Unavailable
+ Previously Unreleased