HENDRIX JIMI/ARE YOU EXPERIENCED

Descripción

Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967 the LP was an immediate critical and commercial success and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music. The album features Jimi Hendrixs innovative approach to songwriting and electric guitar playing which soon established a new direction in psychedelic and hard rock music. Coming after three successful European singles it helped introduce him as a new international star. Are You Experienced and its preceding singles were recorded over a five-month period from late October 1966 through early April 1967. The album was completed in sixteen recording sessions at three London locations including de Lane Lea Studios CBS and Olympic. Released in the UK on May 12 1967 Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the charts peaking at number two. The album was issued in the US on August 23 by Reprise Records where it reached number five on the Billboard 200 remaining on the chart for 106 weeks 27 of those in the Top 40. The US version contained some of Hendrixs best known songs including the Experiences first three singles which though omitted from the British edition of the LP were top ten hits in the UK: Purple Haze Hey Joe and The Wind Cries Mary. In 2005 Rolling Stone ranked Are You Experienced fifteenth on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They placed four songs from the album on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: Purple Haze (17) Foxy Lady (153) Hey Joe (201) and The Wind Cries Mary (379). That same year the record was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress in recognition of its cultural significance to be added to the National Recording Registry. Writer and archivist Rueben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote: its still a landmark recording because it is of the rock RB blues... musical tradition. It altered the syntax of the music... in a way I compare to James Joyces Ulysses.