In early 1967, Hendrix took the British musical world by storm, leaving even "guitar gods" like Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend with their jaws on the floor. So he would have been in great demand as a session musician. But for most of 1967 and 1968, he was too busy with his own career. Plus, I imagine many other musical acts would have been too intimidated to ask him. Most of the records he was on in a session musician role in these years were for people he had been musically associated with before he was famous, especially Curtis Knight and Lonnie Youngblood. So performances with those two people make up five of the eight tracks here.
All but one of the songs here have been officially released. The one exception is an instrumental jam with the members of the band Traffic, simply called "Jam Thing." Perhaps Hendrix wasn't acting as a session musician in a strict sense for that one, but again this seems the best album to fit it in.
Note the version of "Save Me" here isn't exactly an "outfake," but it is a clever edit that created something new. Basically, at different times, Aretha Franklin sang over the exact same backing track that Jimi Hendrix played lead guitar over. So I just combined the two of them together. I made a separate post just for this song edit, which you can find here for more details:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/03/aretha-franklin-with-jimi-hendrix-save.html
Anyway, I thought this is as good an album to include that edit to as any.
As for the other songs, track 1 is from "You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP/PPX Sessions." Tracks 3 and 4 are from "The Summer of Love Sessions." All three of those are songs Hendrix did with Knight in the summer of 1967 to fulfill a record contact he'd signed before he got famous. Track 5 is from "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues." Track 7 is from the Hendrix compilation album "People, Hell and Angels." Track 8 is from the album "McGough and McGear." Track 9 is from the Hendrix box set "West Coast Seattle Boy."
If I've missed any session work he did during these years, let me know and I'll add them in. I only wanted to include songs where his guitar playing was prominent, especially if he performed guitar solos. And I didn't include any guest concert appearances. He often joined other bands on stage to jam, though sadly precious few of these events got recorded.
This album is 42 minutes long.
01 Gloomy Monday [Edit] (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
02 Save Me [Edit] (Aretha Franklin with Jimi Hendrix)
03 Taking Care of No Business (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
04 Love Love [Edit] (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
05 Georgia Blues (Lonnie Youngblood & Jimi Hendrix)
06 Jam Thing [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix & Traffic)
07 Let Me Move You (Lonnie Youngblood with Jimi Hendrix)
08 So Much in Love (McGough & McGear with Jimi Hendrix)
09 Sweet Thang (Billy Lamont with Jimi Hendrix)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/TpZEAKFJ
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/avYn7q3McfFMq2K/file
I don't know when or where the cover photo comes from exactly. But I do know it's a real photo, and I know who is in it. From right to left, that's Steve Winwood, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall, and Eric Burdon. The original I found was in black and white. But I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program, and then Photoshop.
Pure Magic!
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