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Originals - The World of Jimi Hendrix
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Love
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Hey Joe
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from Love (Bonus Tracks)
(2007)
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Howlin' Wolf
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Killing Floor
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from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)
(1997)
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Bob Dylan
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Like a Rolling Stone
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from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
(1983)
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B.B. King
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Rock Me Baby
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from Blues On Blues
(2006)
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The Troggs
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Wild Thing
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from The Best of The Troggs
(1994)
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Bob Dylan
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Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
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from Biograph
(1997)
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Muddy Waters
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(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
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from Muddy Waters the Anthology: 1947-1972
(2001)
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Big Mama Thornton
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Hound Dog
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from Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings
(1992)
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Stevie Wonder
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I Was Made to Love Her
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from Number 1's
(2007)
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Them
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Gloria
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from Still On Top - The Greatest Hits
(2007)
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Bob Dylan
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All Along the Watchtower
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from The Best of Bob Dylan
(2005)
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Earl King
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Come On (Parts I and II)
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from Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings
(2003)
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Elmore James
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My Bleeding Heart
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from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions
(2007)
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Bob Dylan
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Drifter's Escape
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from John Wesley Harding
(2004)
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Cream
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Sunshine of Your Love
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from The Very Best of Cream
(1995)
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Albert King
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Born Under a Bad Sign
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from The Very Best of Albert King
(2007)
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Muddy Waters
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Mannish Boy
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from Muddy Waters the Anthology: 1947-1972
(2001)
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Chuck Berry
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Johnny B. Goode
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from The Definitive Collection
(2006)
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Carl Perkins
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Blue Suede Shoes
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from The Dance Album
(1957)
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US Air Force Academy Band
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Star Spangled Banner
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from The Big Blue Ball
(2006)
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Comment:
Sure, Jimi Hendrix was one of the best songwriters of his generation, but he also reached out to his peers for their best work . . . and rewrote [i]that[/i] as well. "Hey Joe," a high-tension dialogue between a murderous husband on the lam and his bestest pal, has a mystifying history — several writers claim it, and it was recorded half-a-dozen times before Jimi made it his own — but Love's Arthur Lee says his Benzedrine-riddled version inspired Hendrix, and that's good enough for us. Bob Dylan's harmonica wails a soul-baring whine over the freight-train throb of "All Along the Watchtower," but Dylan liked Hendrix's revamp so much he calls [i]it[/i] the definitive version, and to back it up, he changed the way he plays it in concert, reflecting Jimi's influence. And the Troggs took "Wild Thing," a three-chord caveman stomp written by Angelina Jolie's uncle, to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic, in the process making it the only British Invasion-era chart-topper to feature an [i]ocarina[/i] solo. But don't stop there — from Chuck Berry to Cream, we've got all the songs that Hendrix noised up, rocked out, and psychedelicized into immortality.
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