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Released
  
July 1979

Release date
  
July 1979

Artist
  
Jimi Hendrix

Genre
  
Rock music

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Label
  
Warner Bros. Reprise Records

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two (1980)
  
Nine to the Universe (1980)

Similar
  
Jimi Hendrix albums, Rock music albums

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two, released a year after Volume 1 in 1979, is a continuation of the greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix. When released on CD, both volumes were released together as a double-CD package.

Contents

The LP also contained a 7" 33 1⁄3 RPM one-sided EP of The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing the song "Gloria".

Track listing

All songs composed by Jimi Hendrix except where noted.

Side One

  1. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) - 3:25 (Are You Experienced?, 1967)
  2. "Fire" - 2:41 (Are You Experienced?)
  3. "Foxy Lady" - 3:15 (Are You Experienced?)
  4. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:15 (Are You Experienced?)
  5. "I Don't Live Today" – 3:49 (Are You Experienced?)
  6. "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:17 (Electric Ladyland, 1968)

Side Two

  1. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) – 6:44 (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey, California, June 18, 1967)
  2. "Machine Gun" – 12:09 (Live at Fillmore East, New York City, New York, January 1, 1970) (Band of Gypsys, 1970)
  3. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) – 3:45 (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, August 18, 1969) (Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, 1970)

Also included with the album was a 7" 33 1/3 RPM one-sided single of "Gloria" (Recorded at TTG Studios, Hollywood, CA, October 29, 1968).

  1. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) – 8:47

Personnel

  • Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
  • Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals
  • Mitch Mitchell – drums
  • Billy Cox  – bass on "Machine Gun"
  • Buddy Miles  – drums on "Machine Gun"

    • References

    The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two Wikipedia
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