Episode 104 is here, It’s our 2nd Anniversary! And that means, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The album is Electric Ladyland from 1968. This is going to be a good one! Stay Tuned!

Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968. A double album, it was the only record from the Experience with production solely credited to Hendrix. The band’s most commercially successful release and its only number one album, it was released by Reprise Records in the United States on October 16, 1968, and by Track Records in the UK nine days later. By mid-November, it had reached number 1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, spending two weeks there. In the UK it peaked at number 6, where it spent 12 weeks on the British charts.

Electric Ladyland includes a cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower“, which became the Experience’s best-selling single, reaching number six in the UK and number 20 in the United States. Although the album confounded critics upon its release, it has since been viewed as one of Hendrix’s best works and one of the greatest albums of all time, being featured on various “greatest albums” lists, including Q’s 2003 list of the 100 greatest albums and various editions of Rolling Stone’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, on which it was ranked 53rd in the 2020 iteration.

Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix – vocals, guitars, piano, percussion, electric harpsichord; bass guitar on “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”, “Long Hot Summer Night”, “Gypsy Eyes”, “1983…”, “House Burning Down”, and “All Along the Watchtower”; comb and tissue paper on “Crosstown Traffic”
Noel Redding – bass guitar, backing vocals on “Crosstown Traffic”, “Little Miss Strange”, “Come On”, “Burning of the Midnight Lamp”, and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”; acoustic guitar and lead vocals on “Little Miss Strange”
Mitch Mitchell – drums, percussion, backing vocals on all tracks except “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”; lead vocals on “Little Miss Strange”

Production
Jimi Hendrix – producer, mixing, arrangements, US LP issue liner notes
Eddie Kramer, Gary Kellgren – engineers, mixing
David King – UK album sleeve design
David Montgomery – UK outer sleeve and inside photography
Karl Ferris – US cover design
Ed Thrasher – US art direction
Linda Eastman, David Sygall – US cover photography

Digital Remastering
Lee Herschberg – initial compact disc release
Joe Gastwirt – 1989 compact disc release
Eddie Kramer, George Marino – 1997 compact disc release
Bernie Grundman, Scott Sedilo – 2018 anniversary compact disc release

Additional Musicians
Al Kooper – piano on “Long Hot Summer Night”
Dave Mason – twelve-string guitar on “All Along the Watchtower”, backing vocals on “Crosstown Traffic”
Steve Winwood – Hammond organ on “Voodoo Chile”
Jack Casady – bass guitar on “Voodoo Chile”
Freddie Smith – tenor saxophone on “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”
Mike Finnigan – organ on “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”
Buddy Miles – drums on “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”
Larry Faucette – congas on “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”
Chris Wood – flute on “1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)”
Brian Jones – percussion on “All Along the Watchtower”
The Sweet Inspirations – backing vocals on “Burning of the Midnight Lamp”

Art/Photography/Etc.
Glen Lutchford – photography
Timothy O’Donnell – design assistant
Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
Adrian Philpott – art direction, design

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