Jonny Lang, Billy Cox, Brad Whitford, and Chris Layton rocked The Tonight Show last night with their performance of “Fire” in tribute to Jimi Hendrix. You can watch their performance in the video shown below, or view the complete episode at the Tonight Show website.

Ring in the holiday season with Jimi and the Band Of Gypsys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (10″ Green Vinyl) debuted at #4 this week on the Billboard Overall Singles Chart! This newly minted (2010) special edition EP features Jimi’s incomparable rendition of “Little Drummer Boy / Silent Night / Auld Lang Syne.”

An all-star cast of musical giants, all fresh from the latest edition of the Experience Hendrix tour, will be performing Jimi Hendrix’s classic “Fire” on the Tonight Show this coming Monday, December 6th.  The grouping of greats, reflective of the influence Jimi Hendrix has had through successive generations, includes young guitar slinger Jonny Lang, Aerosmith’s own Brad Whitford, Billy Cox of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys and Chris Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble.  

An all-star cast of musical giants, all fresh from the latest edition of the Experience Hendrix tour, will be performing Jimi Hendrix’s classic “Fire” on the Tonight Show TODAY, Monday, December 6th. The grouping of greats, reflective of the influence Jimi Hendrix has had through successive generations, includes young guitar slinger Jonny Lang, Aerosmith’s own Brad Whitford, Billy Cox of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys and Chris Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble.

Experience Hendrix Tour members Jonny Lang, Brad Whitford, Billy Cox and Chris Layton will perform “Fire” on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on Monday, December 6th! The show airs at 11:35 p.m. EST. Be sure to tune in!

Saturday, November 27th marks what would have been Jimi Hendrix’s 68th birthday. Happy birthday to the world’s ultimate guitar legend, whose music continues to inspire people throughout the world.

Released this week, West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is a revelation, a classy box set with 4 CDs and a DVD documentary that chronologically details the short but unparalleled career of the greatest electric guitarist of all time.

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For Jimi Hendrix fanatics, the selling point of this four-disc set is a full CD of songs on which the guitarist doesn’t sing lead and barely solos. Instead, he plays sideman to Little Richard, Don Covay and others on 15 R&B smokers.

Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings have just released the deluxe edition of ‘West Coast Seattle Boy-The Jimi Hendrix Anthology.’ A five-disc set, it contains one DVD and four CD’s, featuring a full four hours of rare and unreleased tracks.

These include 45 previously unreleased Hendrix concert and studio recordings, some of which are demos, outtakes, and alternate versions of tracks from ‘Are You Experienced,’ ‘Axis: Bold As Love,’ and ‘Electric Ladyland.’