|  By
Cornbread
 Jimi
Hendrix – Blues
{originally released 4/26/94, re-released 11/30/98
| Experience Hendrix/MCA Records}
Blues
is a collection on songs, mostly covers recorded
during different periods of Jimi's career. Jimi
not only pays homage to some influential blues
forefathers on this CD, but forever cements
his place in history as a bluesman and one of
the most influential guitarists of the 21st
century.
Born
Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27th, 1942,
in Seattle, his name was changed to James Marshall
Hendrix at age 4. Hendrix died September 18,
1970 in London, he was 27. Hendrix was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
Blues
Contributors are:
Billy Cox | Buddy Miles | Jack Casady | Mitch
Mitchell | Noel Redding | Steve Winwood
1.
Hear My Train a Comin' – this
is an acoustic version, played on a 12-string
guitar, rich in the style of delta blues.
2. Born Under a Bad Sign –
over 7 minutes, this Booker T. Jones song is
kicked up several notches with Jimi’s
signature heavily distorted electric guitar
playing on this mostly instrumental rendition.
3. Red House – should
be called red hot smokin’ electric blues!
4. Catfish Blues – nuttin’
goes better with catfish than Cornbread. This
song is a bit slower vocally, with the intensity
of his guitar chops second-to-none. Excellent
drum solo.
5. Voodoo Chile Blues –
recorded in 1968 and is as good as anything
coming out now. The backing organ is a bonus.
6. Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
song, done up voodoo child. Man, that’s
some fast guitar playin’.
7. Once I Had a Woman –
Jimi playing guitar, some harmonica, some vocals
half-way into the song, but they don’t
last long, I guess they’d just get in
the way of the guitar playing anyway.
8. Bleeding Heart – has
shorter guitar vibratos similar to B.B. King,
except with distortion and volume.
9. Jelly 292 – sounds
like the electric shuffle to me, the piano is
a nice addition to this intense instrumental.
10. Electric Church Red House
– bluesy vocals and lots and lots of guitar.
11. Hear My Train a Comin'
– an electric twelve minute bonus included
on the re-release, you’d never know it
was the same as the first song.
Total
time 72:31 – wow!
This CD should come with a warning label. Definitely
not for the light at heart, if you’re
a guitar lovin’, blues aficionado you’ll
probably like this.
Thanks
to my Brother, Matt for turning me onto this.
I
liked this CD, it did well on the STLBluesometer
- rating 4.783
Ciao' for now, peace.
Peter 'Cornbread'
Cohen, CBP
Email - Cornbread@STLBlues
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