BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)

Infobox Album
Name = BBC Sessions
Type = Live album
Artist = The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released = June 2, 1998
Recorded = 1967, 1969
Genre = Rock, Acid Rock, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Funk rock
Length = 107:47
Label = MCA
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kcfyxqqjldfe link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|album=1699
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/202448 link]
Last album = "Live at the Oakland Coliseum" (1998)
This album = "BBC Sessions" (1998)
Next album = "Live at Clark University" (1999)

"BBC Sessions" (1998) is an album of recordings by the rock group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on MCA Records. It contains all the surviving tracks from their various appearances on BBC radio programmes, such as 'Saturday Club' and 'Top Gear', recorded in 1967. At a BBC radio 'session', a practice still alive in British radio today, a band is required to record material quickly, with limited overdubbing, largely limited to and relying upon their live sound. Many groups as part of this tradition choosing to record some songs that are not part of their main repertoire. The album also includes the only two surviving Hendrix UK TV soundtracks (both BBC) 'Late Night Line Up' (Manic Depression only survives) and the 1969 'Lulu show' (complete - well they just had to snip the end off where Lulu says "Thank you boys").

"BBC Sessions" therefore offers its own unique example of the Experience sound, and a revealing glimpse of a song from their early repertoire Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and their only known studio recording of Bob Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?".

Apart from the "live" in studio versions of well-known Experience songs, there are several unique studio recordings of songs, ie Driving South (x3), Hoochie Coochie Man, Catfish Blues, Hound Dog, Hear My Train A Comin'(x2) and a couple of novelty tracks: the amusing parody of a BBC Radio 1 jingle "Radio One", and a recording with a young Stevie Wonder on drums (a cover of Wonder's own "I Was Made to Love Her"). It also includes the sound track from the band's infamous appearance on Lulu's television show in 1969.

The Top Of The Pops references were overdubbed by Brian Mathews onto 'Top Gear' recordings for the BBC produced Swedish (English language) "radio" show of the same name. The original recordings minus Brian no longer exist.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Foxy Lady" (Jimi Hendrix) – 2:59
#"Alexis Korner Introduction" – 0:27
#"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (Bob Dylan) – 3:31
#"Rhythm and Blues World Service" – 0:12
#"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 5:31
#"Traveling with the Experience" – 0:22
#"Driving South" (Curtis Knight) – 5:30
#"Fire" (Hendrix) – 2:43
#"Little Miss Lover" (Hendrix) – 2:57
#"Introducing the Experience" – 0:51
#"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Hendrix) – 3:43
#"Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway) – 5:28
#"Stone Free" (Hendrix) – 3:25
#"Love or Confusion" (Hendrix) – 2:54
#"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 4:01
#"Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:42
#"Driving South" (McNear) – 4:49
#"Hear My Train a Comin'" (Hendrix) – 5:00

Disc two

#"Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 3:17
#"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) – 2:29
#"Radio One" (Hendrix) – 1:34
#"Wait Until Tomorrow" (Hendrix) – 2:57
#"Day Tripper" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:24
#"Spanish Castle Magic" (Hendrix) – 3:07
#"Jammin'" (Hendrix) – 3:23
#"I Was Made to Love Her" (Henry Cosby, Lula Mae Hardaway, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) – 3:04
#"Foxy Lady" (Hendrix) – 2:43
#"A Brand New Sound" – 0:54
#"Hey Joe" (alternate take) (Roberts) – 2:57
#"Manic Depression" (Hendrix) – 3:10
#"Driving South" (alternate take) (McNear) – 3:21
#"Hear My Train a Comin'" (alternate take) (Hendrix) – 5:02
#"A Happening for Lulu" – 0:19
#"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Hendrix) – 4:08
#"Lulu Introduction" – 0:22
#"Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 2:43
#"Sunshine of Your Love" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton) – 1:17

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix- Vocals, Guitar

Mitch Mitchell- Drums, except on I Was Made to Love Her

Noel Redding- Bass

Stevie Wonder- Drum Kit on I Was Made to Love Her

Alexis Korner- guitar on Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

ources

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