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If you love the music of Hendrix like I do, you’ll be pleased to hear on the radio these days, a Jimi tune never before played on radio, called Valley’s of Neptune.   Before you read why this is so, I invite you to comment (today only), that is leave a question you would ask Jimi’s bass player Billy Cox, as I’m going to get some time with him early tomorrow to talk about Jimi and this new album release.

Now the press release below,

Cheers,

Jeff.

Experience Hendrix LLC and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings
will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on
Tuesday, March 9, with the release of Valleys of Neptune, a newly
curated album of 12 fully realized studio recordings.  The collector’s
item contains more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available
on a Jimi Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called
the greatest guitarist of all time.

Centered around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent
four-month period in 1969, Valleys of Neptune unveils the original Jimi
Hendrix Experience’s final studio recordings.  Here the group lays down
the foundation for its follow-up to Electric Ladyland, alongside the
guitar superhero’s first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army
buddy he’d recruited into his new ensemble.

Valleys of Neptune provides an essential, compelling, and largely unseen
view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period
between the release of Electric Ladyland in October 1968 and the 1970
opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village.  The
state of the art facility is also where he would begin his final
project, the ambitious double album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the Hendrix family-owned
company entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi
Hendrix, noted, "My brother Jimi was at home in the studio. Valleys of
Neptune offers deep insight into his mastery of the recording process
and demonstrates the fact that he was as unparalleled a recording
innovator as he was a guitarist. His brilliance shines  through on every
one of these precious tracks."

Valleys of Neptune offers more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased
Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded, and newly mixed for this
historic release, by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first
worked with the guitarist on Are You Experienced? in 1967.  Valleys of
Neptune is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes
detailed liner notes to the album) and Eddie Kramer.

The "Valleys of Neptune" single has long been one of the most sought
after of Hendrix’s recordings.  The song will be released globally on
February 2, 2010, nearly forty years after Jimi finished recording the
track at New York’s Record Plant in May of 1970.

Other highlights on Valleys of Neptune include blazing studio covers of
Elmore James’ classic "Bleeding Heart" and Cream’s "Sunshine of Your
Love," as well as premier performances of original Hendrix compositions
like "Ships Passing Through The Night," "Lullaby For The Summer," and
the original recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of "Hear
My Train A Comin’."   Also included in Valleys of Neptune is "Mr. Bad
Luck," a Jimi Hendrix Experience track, produced by Chas Chandler during
the 1967 Axis: Bold as Love sessions.

As part of the opening wave of releases for the Jimi Hendrix Catalog
Project, Legacy Recordings will also be releasing new deluxe CD/DVD
editions of Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland,
and First Rays of the New Rising Sun, also available on vinyl, on March
9.

Each of the essential titles in the Jimi Hendrix catalog to be reissued
on Legacy will feature a bonus DVD featuring newly created documentaries
directed by the Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton [Beatles Anthology,
Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings] and featuring
interviews with Experience members Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Billy
Cox, original producer Chas Chandler, and engineer Eddie Kramer.  In
addition, Smash Hits, Jimi’s original compilation, will be reintroduced.
The critically acclaimed Live At Woodstock will be available as a
standard DVD, as well as a Blu-ray Disc.

"No artist has ever transformed the pop music landscape as profoundly or
as permanently as Jimi Hendrix," said Adam Block, Senior Vice President
and General Manager, Legacy Recordings.  "We are proud to be partnering
with Experience Hendrix in releasing Valleys of  Neptune, a treasure for
Hendrix fans both new and experienced.  It’s an auspicious start in
fulfilling a shared vision for the Jimi Hendrix catalog going forward."

Valleys of Neptune

Stone Free

Recorded: Record Plant, New York,  April 7, 9, 14, May 17,1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Billy Cox

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Backing Vocals: Roger Chapman, Andy Fairweather Low

Valleys Of Neptune

Recorded: Record Plant, New York, September 23, 1969, May 15, 1970

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Bass: Billy Cox

Percussion: Juma Sultan

Bleeding Heart

Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 24, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Billy Cox

Drums: Rocky Isaac

Tambourine: Chris Grimes

Maracas: Al Marks

Hear My Train A Comin’

Recorded: Record Plant, New York,  April 7, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Mr. Bad Luck

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, May 5, 1967

Producer: Chas Chandler

Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Sunshine Of Your Love

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu

Lover Man

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Ships Passing Through The Night

Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 14, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Guitar, Vocals: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Fire

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass, Backing Vocal: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Red House

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Lullaby For The Summer

Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Mixed By Eddie Kramer

Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Crying Blue Rain

Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987

Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu

Bass: Noel Redding

Drums: Mitch Mitchell

* * * * *

Experience Hendrix Tour 2010, the fourth edition of the biennial concert
tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to
the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix gets underway in early March of
next year with special performances across the country.

Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by
Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected artists
in contemporary rock and blues including Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric
Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith), Doyle
Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Double Trouble’s Chris Layton,
along with bassist Billy Cox. Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the
two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the
Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at
such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Cox
commented, "It’s a thrill for me to play Jimi’s music for audiences now
as it was in the 1960s."

March 4 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater (1)

           5 – Los Angeles, CA – Gibson Amphitheater (1)

           6 – Las Vegas, NV – The Joint @ Hard Rock (1)

           7 – Mesa, AZ – Ikeda Theater (1)

           9 – Fresno, CA – Table Mountain (1)

         10 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theater (1, 2)

         12 – Reno, NV – Silver Legacy (1, 2)

         14 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre (1, 2, 3)

         16 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater (1, 2, 3)

         17 – Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theater (1, 2, 3)

         18 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theater (1, 2, 3)

         20 – St. Louis, MO – Fox Theatre (2, 3)

         21 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater (2, 3)

         23 – Akron, OH – Civic Theatre(2)

         24 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre (2)

         25 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theater (2)

         27- Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre (2)

1 = David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas appearing

2 = Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph appearing

3 = Susan Tedeschi appearing