[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]undoubtedly a rock album, albeit rock on the point of evolving into something else.
– David Stubbs
one of the greatest double-albums in rock.
– John Perry[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Electric Ladyland is the third and final album of new material by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968 on Reprise Records. It is the only Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks in November 1968.
| Released | October 25, 1968 (some sources says October 16…worth celebrating anyhow) |
|---|---|
| Recorded | Olympic Studios, London and Record Plant Studios, New York, July and December 1967, January 1968, April–August 1968 |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, blues rock, acid rock, hard rock |
| Length | 75:47 |
| Label | Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor |
| Producer | Jimi Hendrix |
All along the watchtower, the best Dylan cover of all time!:
This is a perfect Hendrix album. It is poppy and funky and original at the same time, and what a great soul singer Hendrix was! I also think it is very inventive, sonically speaking. Jimi Hendrix really searched for “new sounds” on this record, he produced an album that has stood the test of time marvelously.
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