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Jul 12, 2021 · Electric Ladyland was Hendrix’s third studio album, and as it would turn out, also his last. It was also an undoubted masterpiece and ‘Voodoo Chile’ / ‘Voodoo Child (Slight Return) are two tracks that permeate the record with spontaneous energy.
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968. A double album, it was the only record from the Experience with production solely credited to Hendrix.
- Whitney Houston’s mom sang backing vocals on “Burning of the Midnight Lamp.” The first song recorded for Electric Ladyland, the introspective “Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” was tracked at New York’s Mayfair Studios on July 6thand 7th, 1967, just three weeks after the Experience’s incendiary performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
- Hendrix played a homemade kazoo on “Crosstown Traffic.” “The wah-wah pedal is great because it doesn’t have any notes,” Hendrix told Rolling Stone in 1968, waxing rhapsodic about the then-new invention, which was one of his favorite musical tools.
- Brian Jones tried (and failed) to play piano on “All Along the Watchtower.” Hendrix often encouraged other musicians to join in on his recording sessions, and Electric Ladyland featured several guest contributors, including Al Kooper, Buddy Miles and three members of Traffic (Dave Mason, Steve Winwood and Chris Wood).
- Bob Dylan thought Hendrix’s version of “Watchtower” was an improvement on his original. “I love Dylan,” Hendrix enthused to Rolling Stone in 1969. “I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish [a folk-rock-era hangout in New York] on MacDougal Street.
May 12, 2021 · Here's how Steve Winwood ended up on the 15-minute Jimi Hendrix jam that became a key track on 'Electric Ladyland.'
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" Voodoo Chile " ( / tʃaɪl / CHAIL) is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded in 1968 for the third Jimi Hendrix Experience album Electric Ladyland. It is based on the Muddy Waters blues song "Rollin' Stone", but with original lyrics and music.
Sep 7, 2021 · The blues is abundantly present on Electric Ladyland – notably the song “Voodoo Chile,” which remains a favorite Hendrix track for many to this day. Jack Casady and Steve Winwood join forces with Mitch Mitchell to create a John Lee Hooker vibe that travels from a low-down blues to a sort of psychedelic bagpipe section.
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Apr 15, 2022 · “Voodoo Chile” was first released as the fourth track on Hendrix’s 1968 album, Electric Ladyland. If you thought “Free Bird” and “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” were extensively long, “Voodoo...
