Naturally, with one of those rare tracks out of circulation, used copies go for big bucks. Its out-of-print status today suggests that even the Estate doesn’t consider it part of the canon. Note: Music from the PBS television film series.
Unfortunately, it had already been done, and better, making it less a loving portrait than a grab for cash. Publication date: 2003 Title variation: Blues : Jimi Hendrix. Slightly more interesting is “Blue Window”, where he’s backed by the Buddy Miles Express for 13 minutes, horns and all.Īs many of the tracks feature Jimi playing alongside people other than the Experience or the Band of Gypsys, the album does succeed in presenting another side of him.
“Georgia Blues” is a something of a rewrite of “Stormy Monday”, featuring Lonnie Youngblood on sax and lead vocals, in an uncanny similarity to Bob Seger.
Jimi hendrix martin scorsese presents the blues series#
On September 28, PBS will air the first segment of a seven-part series that provides an in-depth examination of the blues. First Appeared at The Music Box, October 2003, Volume 10, 10. Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. Martin Scorsese Presents 'The Blues' Part One of Four. That leaves exactly two songs not officially released before. Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix and Billy Cox Three songs are repeated from the box set of only three years earlier, including a smoking take of “Hear My Train A-Comin’” with the Experience. Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix should not be considered definitive in the least while it only overlaps a few song titles with that well-done 1994 set, it’s not exactly illuminating.įive of the tracks could be considered standard-the Smash Hits version of “Red House”, “Come On” and the long “Voodoo Chile” from Electric Ladyland, the execrable “My Friend” from Cry Of Love and later First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, and “Midnight Lightning”, which closes South Saturn Delta.
But the estate heard cash registers, so they dove in with another set. If anything, it opened the opportunities for a flood of companion CDs covering famous and forgotten bluesmen, the likes of which hadn’t been seen since Sony rediscovered Robert Johnson in 1990.Ī well-sequenced and equally well-received compilation dedicated to the blues side of Jimi Hendrix had already been out for ten years. A couple of years before stamping his name on documentaries about Bob Dylan and George Harrison, director Martin Scorsese tried to one-up Ken Burns with a PBS series on the blues.
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