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Release date:9th March 2010
Type: album
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Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune
Valleys of Neptune is an upcoming posthumous studio album by American psychedelic, blues rock musician Jimi Hendrix is due to be released on the 9th of march
Several of the tracks on the album, like the cover of Cream’s Sunshine of Your Love and Elmore James’ Bleeding Heart, and a trio of rehashed Experience favourites, were done as studio warm-ups or rehearsals for forthcoming concerts. Even the conventional studio tracks mostly feel as cold and flat as rehearsals, rather than layered and nuanced in the manner of LP cuts. Additionally, the fact that these 12 tracks have a running time of an hour is a bad sign. That Hendrix was always best when he combined virtuosity with brevity is demonstrated by the flaccid eight-minute version herein of Red House, which can’t hold a candle to the taut, classic Are You Experienced original.