Jimi Hendrix: Still Dead and Still Releasing Albums
Jimi’s been dead for 42 years and yet somehow, he keeps releasing albums. From The Guardian:
March next year will see the release of People, Hell and Angels, a collection of previously unreleased songs, which – according to the guitarist’s sister Janie – indicate that he was gravitating towards a sound that prefigured Earth, Wind and Fire.
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The dozen tracks on People, Hell and Angels – recorded in 1968 and 1969 – include songs for a proposed double-LP called First Rays of the New Rising Sun. However, much of the First Rays … material has already been released – on 1971’s albums The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, 1972’s War Heroes and the 1997 album that was released under the title First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
In fact, People, Hell and Angels is the 11th posthumous Hendrix studio album, in addition to an enormous array of live albums, official bootlegs and compilations. During his lifetime, Hendrix released just three studio albums with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and one live album with Band of Gypsys.