On March 9, Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release ‘Both Sides Of The Sky’, a dynamic new Jimi Hendrix album featuring 13 studio recordings made between 1968 and 1970 – 10 of which have never before been released. The album will be released on multiple formats including CD, digital, and as a numbered 180-gram audiophile vinyl 2LP.
Beginning with ‘Valleys Of Neptune’ (2010), which earned top ten sales rankings in fifteen countries (including a top position of #4 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart), followed by ‘People, Hell And Angels’ (2013) which peaked on Billboard’s Top 100 album chart at #2. Billboard’s coveted #1 singles ranking went to “Somewhere”, the album’s lead track and the legendary guitarist’s highest-ever U.S. singles chart achievement. This third release is anticipated to complete the spectacular recording event in epic fashion.
‘Both Sides Of The Sky’ additionally highlights Jimi‘s mastery of studio production and his increasing use of these facilities as a proving ground for new sounds, material, and techniques. Many of the album’s tracks were recorded by the trio that would come to be known as BAND OF GYPSYS: Jimi on guitar and vocals, Billy Cox on bass, and Buddy Miles on drums. For their first-ever recording session on April 22, 1969, Hendrix turned to their shared musical root, delta blues. Their previously unreleased, uptempo reworking of Muddy Waters’s ‘Mannish Boy’, which can be streamed below, opens the album and sets the tempo for what follows.
‘Both Sides Of The Sky’ track listing: