JIMI HENDRIX

Both Sides of the Sky Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy

Both Sides of the Sky is the last in a trilogy, gathering assorted Hendrix studio recordings, following 2010’s Valleys of Neptune and 2013’s People, Hell and Angels.

Ten of the 13 tracks are billed as previously unreleased, though several are alternate or instrumental versions of known Hendrix tracks.

A take on Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock, features Hendrix on bass, with vocals and organ by Stephen Stills.

It sounds like a demo of the track released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Power of Soul was mixed by Eddie Kramer and Hendrix at his Electric Lady Studios weeks before his death.

Hendrix was known to be a perfectionist and maybe he’d have continued tweaking the complex, upbeat, optimistic song, but it seems to provide the clearest sample of what may have come nex