Jimi Hendrix - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 (1967)

This is the second of four volumes of Jimi Hendrix playing at the BBC. Once again, all the performances date to 1967.

As I mentioned in my description of Volume 1, four of the songs here (the first four) chronologically belong with Volume 1, but I put them here in order to cut down on the duplications of the same song on one album. That's also the case for the last song, which should belong on the next volume in this series.

You may note that three of the songs here have "Alternate Take" in their names. That's because when Hendrix played at the BBC, he sometimes did more than one take of the same song, then only one version was played on the radio. Luckily, recordings of these alternate takes survived, and in just as good sound quality. If these are "inferior" versions, I don't hear that. They just have different solos and such.

For this volume, five of the 14 songs have not been officially released. Four of those come from Hendrix performing for TV or radio shows other than the BBC. There also is one song ("Burning of the Midnight Lamp") that was officially released, but not on the official BBC releases because it was from one of those other TV or radio shows.

Also, one of the unreleased songs WAS from the BBC: an instrumental medley of the Motown hits "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." However, only about half of that version was included on the official "BBC Sessions" album, and this is the whole thing. By the way, that medley, plus an instrumental known as "Jammin'" also feature Stevie Wonder on drums.

As with the other volumes in this series, I was highly selective on what to include in terms of sound quality. There are other songs played on TV or the radio at the time that didn't make the cut, usually selections from concerts that are marred by lots of crowd noise. So the sound quality here is uniformly high. Even better, my musical associate MZ edited some of the unreleased songs to make them sound better than the commonly circulating bootleg versions.

01 Foxy Lady [Alternate Take] (Jimi Hendrix)
02 Hey Joe [Alternate Take] (Jimi Hendrix)
03 Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
04 Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix)
05 Fire (Jimi Hendrix)
06 The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
07 Burning of the Midnight Lamp (Jimi Hendrix)
08 Jammin' [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix with Stevie Wonder on Drums)
09 I Was Made to Love Her - Ain't Too Proud to Beg [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix with Stevie Wonder on Drums)
10 Hound Dog (Jimi Hendrix)
11 Driving South [Alternate Take] (Jimi Hendrix)
12 Little Miss Lover (Jimi Hendrix)
13 Catfish Blues (Jimi Hendrix)
14 Hear My Train A-Comin' (Jimi Hendrix)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15120218/JimiH_1967f_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo shows Hendrix in a recording studio in October 1967.