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Jimi Hendrix - Freak Out Blues (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Intro By Jimi For Us Army Broadcast Midnight 3:55
  2. Voodoo Chile 9:03
  3. Rainy Day Try Out 1:37
  4. Red House 7:02
  5. Bleeding Heart 3:37
  6. Blue Window Jam 8:30
  7. Villanova Junction Blues 4:04
  8. Funky Blues Jam 1:43
  9. Once I Had A Woman 5:16
  10. Police Blues 11:25
  11. Country Blues 6:32
  12. Freedom Jam 8:22
  13. Acoustic Medley 3:24

Notes


Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London, 14feb69 (track 1)
Record Plant, New York, 02may68 (track 2)
Record Plant, New York, 10jun68 (track 3)
TTG Studio, 29oct68 (track 4)
Record Plant, New York, 18dec69/24mar70 (tracks 5)
Mercury Studio, 15mar69 (track 6)
Record Plant, New York, 14nov69 (track 7)
Date/Location Unknown (track 8)
Record Plant, New York, 23jan70 (track 9-12)
Jimi's Apartment, early 70 (track 13)

1.Intro by Jimi (US Army Broadcast 30oct67)
/Midnight Lightning
2.Voodoo Chile
3.Rainy Day Try Out
4.Red House
5.Bleeding Heart
6.Blue Window Jam
7.Villanova Junction Blues
8.Funky Blues Jam
9.Once I Had A Woman
10.Police Blues
11.Country Blues
12.Freedom Jam
13.Acoustic Medley

Freak Out Blues features jams mostly with the Band Of Gypsys lineup, though
there are a couple of Electric Ladyland demos, and solo stuff as well. Starting
with an small sound byte by Jimi, explaining what his new album (Axis:Bold As
Love) is all about, it then goes into a solo version of Midnight Lightning that
is similiar to the one on South Saturn Delta. Voodoo Chile, an outtake from
Electric Ladyland, is the version found on the Blues CD; Rainy Day Try Out is an
early version of another Electric Ladyland tune; Red House, another track from
the Blues and the Variations On A Theme CDs, is here in its complete form;
Bleeding Heart is Jimi solo, no vocals, on what sounds like some of the backing
guitar that would end up on the War Heroes track of the same name. After that,
the CD goes into a number of jams featuring the Band Of Gypsys lineup, including
the full (minus Jimi explaining to Buddy how he wants the song to start) Blue
Suede Shoes jam (originally found on Loose Ends, including the spoken comments
by Jimi), and here called Police Blues.