Jimi Hendrix - Drifter's Escape - Non-Album Tracks (1970)

It's been months since I've posted any Jimi Hendrix albums. I had posted a bunch of stray tracks albums from him in chronological order, and I've had one more to go, which is this one. I delayed posting this because this deals with his 1970 recordings after the Band of Gypsys broke up, and those recordings are a confusing mess. But I'm finally ready to take a stab anyway.

If you're a fan of Hendrix's music, you probably know that he released the double album "Electric Ladyland" in late 1968, and then didn't put out any studio album from then until his death in late 1970. When he died, he was close to finishing a double or even triple album, which he probably was going to call "First Rays of the New Rising Sun," or possibly "Strate Ahead." That album is NOT an attempt to make something like that. I'll probably post something like that "lost album" eventually. This is more like an album of leftovers after you remove all the most likely suspects for what was going to go on that album. For instance, I haven't included a single performance that appears on the official version of "First Rays of the New Rising Sun," released in 1997.

Instead, this has songs that were never going to be part of that final album (whatever he called it), or alternate versions of songs that might have been a part of it. Most of the songs here come from the "West Coast Seattle Boy" box set or the "Jimi Hendrix Experience" box set. There also are two songs from "South Saturn Delta," and one from "War Heroes," which is long out of print. There's a version of "Drifting" that's still officially unreleased. And I'm very surprised that I found an unreleased version of "Further On Up the Road," given that it has Hendrix singing as well as playing on it.

With this album, I finally finish posting all of my stray tracks albums from him. But I still have a lot more of his music to post. Hopefully, I won't take nearly so long to get to it next time.

01 Peter Gunn Theme - Catastrophe (Jimi Hendrix)
02 Blue Suede Shoes (Jimi Hendrix)
03 Keep On Groovin' (Jimi Hendrix)
04 All God's Children [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
05 Drifter's Escape (Jimi Hendrix)
06 Beginnings [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
07 Further On Up the Road (Jimi Hendrix)
08 Bolero [Instrumental] - Hey Baby [New Rising Sun] (Jimi Hendrix)
09 Pali Gap [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
10 Come Down Hard on Me (Jimi Hendrix)
11 Slow Blues [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
12 Drifting [Alternate Version] (Jimi Hendrix)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15121505/JimiH_1970c_DriftrsEscape_atse.zip.html

The album cover is based on a concert poster. I believe it's from a concert at the Fillmore East by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968. Given that it was the usual rectangular poster, I had to do some sneaky things to reshape things to fit without distorting the dimensions of his face.