BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)

BBC Sessions

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Released

June 2, 1998

Recorded

1967, 1969

Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues rock, acid rock, funk rock, hard rock

Length

107:20

Label

MCA

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live at the Oakland Coliseum
(1998)

BBC Sessions
(1998)

Live at the Fillmore East
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	B+^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]

BBC Sessions is an album of recordings by the rock group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on MCA Records on June 2, 1998. 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 in a studio quickly with limited overdubbing, largely limited to and relying upon their live sound. Many groups as part of this tradition choose 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).

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, i.e. "Driving South" (x3), which includes several licks derived from Albert Collins' "Frosty" (1962) and "Thaw Out" (1965), "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.

This collection has been re-released as part of the Hendrix Family's project to remaster Jimi's discography in 2010 by Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings. The re-release contains 2 digitally remastered sound discs with "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" bonus track from August 24, 1967, and 1 DVD videodisc of footage from recording sessions, and 22 pages of program notes.^[4]

Some of this material had previously been released by Rykodisc in 1988 on an album titled Radio One.^[5]

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Foxey Lady"	Jimi Hendrix	2:59
2.	"Alexis Korner Introduction"		0:27
3.	"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"	Bob Dylan	3:31
4.	"Rhythm and Blues World Service"		0:12
5.	"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"	Willie Dixon	5:31
6.	"Traveling with the Experience"		0:22
7.	"Driving South"	Albert Collins	5:30
8.	"Fire"	Hendrix	2:43
9.	"Little Miss Lover"	Hendrix	2:57
10.	"Introducing the Experience"		0:51
11.	"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"	Hendrix	3:43
12.	"Catfish Blues"	Robert Petway	5:28
13.	"Stone Free"	Hendrix	3:25
14.	"Love or Confusion"	Hendrix	2:54
15.	"Hey Joe"	Billy Roberts	4:01
16.	"Hound Dog"	Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller	2:42
17.	"Driving South"	Collins	4:49
18.	"Hear My Train a-Comin'"	Hendrix	5:00

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Purple Haze"	Hendrix	3:17
2.	"Killing Floor"	Chester Arthur Burnett	2:29
3.	"Radio One"	Hendrix	1:34
4.	"Wait Until Tomorrow"	Hendrix	2:57
5.	"Day Tripper"	Lennon–McCartney	3:24
6.	"Spanish Castle Magic"	Hendrix	3:07
7.	"Jammin"	Hendrix	3:20
8.	"I Was Made to Love Her"	Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy	3:04
9.	"Foxey Lady"	Hendrix	2:43
10.	"A Brand New Sound"		0:54
11.	"Hey Joe" (alternate take)	Roberts	2:57
12.	"Manic Depression"	Hendrix	3:10
13.	"Driving South" (alternate take)	Collins	3:21
14.	"Hear My Train a Comin'" (alternate take)	Hendrix	5:02
15.	"A Happening for Lulu"		0:19
16.	"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"	Hendrix	4:08
17.	"Lulu Introduction"		0:22
18.	"Hey Joe"	Roberts	2:43
19.	"Sunshine of Your Love"	Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton	1:17
20.	"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (2010 Reissue Bonus Track)	Hendrix	4:31

Recording details

Based on CD track numbers.

Tracks 1/1, 1/13-15 and 2/9-11 recorded February 13, 1967.
Tracks 1/8, 2/1-2 recorded March 28, 1967.
Track 2/12 recorded April 17, 1967.
Tracks 1/9-12, 1/16-17, 2/7-8 and 2/13 recorded October 6, 1967
Tracks 1/2-7 recorded October 17, 1967.
Tracks 1/18, 2/3-6 and 2/14 recorded December 15, 1967.
Tracks 2/15-19 recorded January 4, 1969.
Track 2/20 (bonus track) recorded August 24, 1967
Track 2/14 Not an alternate take.

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix: vocals, guitar
Mitch Mitchell: drums, except on tracks 25-26
Noel Redding: bass
Stevie Wonder: drums on tracks 25-26
Alexis Korner: slide guitar on track 5

Charts

US Billboard 200: No. 50^[6]
UK Albums Chart: No. 42^[7]

Sources

Jimi Hendrix BBC Sessions CD

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Christgau, Robert (2011). "Robert Christgau: Album: Jimi Hendrix: BBC Sessions". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
↑ Rolling Stone review
↑ The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions (2CD + DVD and LP Editions) The Official Jimi Hendrix Site
↑ "Jimi Hendrix Experience, The - Radio One (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
↑ Billboard album charts info - The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
↑ "UK chart history - The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions". www.chartstats.com. Retrieved 6 September 2011.

Jimi Hendrix

Original 1966–1970 releases are marked in bold.

Studio albums	Are You Experienced Axis: Bold as Love Electric Ladyland The Cry of Love Rainbow Bridge War Heroes Loose Ends Crash Landing Midnight Lightning Nine to the Universe Voodoo Soup First Rays of the New Rising Sun South Saturn Delta Valleys of Neptune People, Hell and Angels

Live albums	Band of Gypsys Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival Experience Isle of Wight Hendrix in the West More Experience The Jimi Hendrix Concerts Jimi Plays Monterey Johnny B. Goode Band of Gypsys 2 Live at Winterland Radio One Stages Live Isle of Wight '70 Woodstock BBC Sessions Live at the Fillmore East Live at Woodstock Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight Live at Berkeley Live at Monterey Winterland Miami Pop Festival Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival

Compilations	Smash Hits Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays Berkeley Re-Experienced The Essential Jimi Hendrix The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two Stone Free The Singles Album Kiss the Sky Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show Cornerstones: 1967–1970 Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story Stages The Ultimate Experience Blues Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection The Singles Collection Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology Fire: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Official bootlegs	Live at the Oakland Coliseum Live at Clark University Morning Symphony Ideas Live in Ottawa Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968 Hear My Music Live at the Isle of Fehmarn Burning Desire Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968 Live at Woburn

Singles	"Hey Joe"/"Stone Free" "Purple Haze" "The Wind Cries Mary"/"Highway Chile" "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"/"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" "Foxy Lady" "Up from the Skies"/"One Rainy Wish" "All Along the Watchtower" "Crosstown Traffic"/"Gypsy Eyes" "Fire" "If 6 Was 9" "Stepping Stone" "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" "Freedom"/"Angel" "Dolly Dagger"/"Star Spangled Banner" "Johnny B. Goode"/"Little Wing" "Hear My Train A Comin'"/"Rock Me Baby" "Day Tripper" "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" "Valleys of Neptune" "Bleeding Heart" "Come On (Part 1)" "Like a Rolling Stone"/"Spanish Castle Magic"

Songs	"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" "Are You Experienced?" "Blue Suede Shoes" "Bold as Love" "Born Under a Bad Sign" "Catfish Blues" "Castles Made of Sand" "Drifter's Escape" "Ezy Ryder" "Gloria" "God Save the Queen" "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" "Hoochie Coochie Man" "Hound Dog" "I Don't Live Today" "It's Too Bad" "Killing Floor" "Machine Gun" "Manic Depression" "Mannish Boy" "May This Be Love" "My Friend" "Peace in Mississippi" "Red House" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" "Sunshine of Your Love" "Third Stone from the Sun" "Voodoo Chile" "Wait Until Tomorrow" "Wild Thing"

Concert tours	The Jimi Hendrix Experience French Tour The Cry of Love Tour

Films, books, tributes	Rainbow Bridge Jimi Hendrix Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Hendrix Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix An Illustrated Experience Becoming Jimi Hendrix Jimi: All Is by My Side

Related people and acts	Curtis Knight Lonnie Youngblood Jimmy James and the Blue Flames The Jimi Hendrix Experience Noel Redding Mitch Mitchell Chas Chandler Eddie Kramer Roger Mayer Michael Jeffery Billy Cox Buddy Miles Alan Douglas Leon Hendrix Kathy Etchingham

Related articles	Original discography Posthumous discography Videography "Testify" "Mercy, Mercy" Canadian drug charges and trial Electric Lady Studios Black Gold Death of Jimi Hendrix

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