LATEST ALBUM COMPLETES CHART STREAK FOR TRILOGY OF POSTHUMOUS RELEASES
Released by Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings on March 9, Jimi Hendrix’s Both Sides of the Sky debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200, as well as #3 on both the Top Current Albums and the Top Rock Albums chart.
If you missed last night’s performance of “Red House” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, be sure to check out this video. Buddy Guy is joined by Billy Cox (Hendrix); Mato Nanji (Indigenous); Calvin Cooke & Chuck Campbell (The Slide Brothers); and Tim Austin as they play this classic Jimi Hendrix blues hit in support of the newly released album, Both Sides of the Sky.
Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have released Jimi Hendrix’s new album Both Sides of the Sky today on CD, digital, and as a numbered 180-gram audiophile vinyl 2 LP set. NPR Music recently declared, “No rock figure before or since could breathe fire like Hendrix does, on his beloved well-known albums and on the assortment that is Both Sides of the Sky.”
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, today announces its most ambitious line-up of collectible releases for Record Store Day, to be released Saturday, April 21, 2018.
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the U.S.
“…a chance to be awed, all over again…No rock figure before or since could breathe fire like Hendrix does.” – NPR Music
Head to NPR Music for an exclusive first listen to Both Sides of the Sky. The album is available everywhere March 9!
Exclusively on USAToday.com, listen to the premiere of “Hear My Train A Comin'” from the upcoming new Jimi Hendrix album Both Sides of the Sky, out March 9. The never-before-heard rendition was recorded in New York in April 1969.
Ultimate Classic Rock and Eddie Kramer take fans behind the scenes of the late guitar legend’s upcoming Both Sides of the Sky LP in an interview clip sharing his thoughts on the session that produced the album’s lead-off track, a previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy.”
“There was an exuberance to the creative process.” Eddie Kramer visits Electric Lady Studios to explore Jimi Hendrix’s creativity behind the recordings found on the March 9th release: Both Sides Of The Sky. Pre-Order one of the exclusive bundled releases today at: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jimi-hendrix
“Jimi’s true home was the studio; that’s where the music and the magic happened,” notes Eddie Kramer. “He loved everything about recording, and it’s been my distinct pleasure and an honor to play a part in that process both then and now.”
