Jimi Hendrix & Various Artists - Jimi Hendrix as Session Musician, Volume 2: 1967-1968

Over a week ago (as I post this in early November 2025), I posted Volume 1 of this series, highlighting Jimi Hendrix when he was in the role of a session musician for others. That first volume dealt with the years 1964 to 1966, before he was famous. This was deals with the years 1967 and 1968, when he quickly went from a musical nobody to a superstar.

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 6 is from the album "McGough and McGear." Track 9 is from the Hendrix box set "West Coast Seattle Boy."

The last song, "Ex-Art Student," is also from "McGough and McGear." Like track 6, "So Much in Love," it was written by Mike McGear, who is the brother of Paul McCartney. The song features Hendrix on the guitar, with Dave Mason on sitar. Backing vocals were done by Graham Nash, McCartney, and McCartney's girlfriend at the time, Jane Asher.

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 49 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 So Much in Love (McGough & McGear with Jimi Hendrix)
07 Jam Thing [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix & Traffic)
08 Let Me Move You (Lonnie Youngblood with Jimi Hendrix)
09 Sweet Thang (Billy Lamont with Jimi Hendrix)
10 Ex-Art Student (McGough & McGear with Jimi Hendrix)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/WzlmCr5rUOvYjdm/file

The cover photo was taken in Zurich, Switzerland, in May 1968. 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.