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Jimi Hendrix - Isle of Wight (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Intro / God Save The Queen 2:58
  2. Message To Love 5:52
  3. Voodoo Chile 8:34
  4. Lover Man 2:58
  5. Machine Gun 12:56
  6. Dolly Dagger 5:40
  7. Red House 11:10
  8. In From The Storm 4:21
  9. New Rising Sun 7:29

Notes

Jimi Hendrix's August 8, 1970 set at the Isle of Wight festival in England resulted in two types of posthumous LPs in the 1970s: illegal bootlegs from various underground labels, and legal releases from Polydor. One of the legal releases that Polydor put out in England was Isle of Wight, a single LP that is consistently exciting but doesn't tell the whole story. Hendrix's performances of "Foxy Lady," "Lover Man," "Midnight Lightning," "All Along the Watchtower," "In from the Storm" and "Freedom" are excellent and made Isle of Wight well worth the price of admission when it first came out in 1971. But the LP is missing some of the other gems that Hendrix and colleagues Billy Cox (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) performed at the festival, including "Red House," "Ezy Rider," "Machine Gun," "Power to Love" and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)." In 1971, Polydor's British division should have made Isle of Wight a double-LP and released Hendrix's set in its entirety.