Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix


Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a compilation album of songs by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, released in 1997 by Legacy Recordings. The single compact disc collects 20 songs spanning his career, from his first recordings with the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966 to his last with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell in 1970.
Experience Hendrix is the first comprehensive collection of Hendrix's songs overseen by Experience Hendrix, a family company that took over management of his recording legacy in 1997. Fifteen songs with the Experience are included, as well as five with Hendrix's later groups, often referred to as "Gypsy Suns and Rainbows" and the "Cry of Love touring band". No songs from the Band of Gypsys lineup with Buddy Miles are included.

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder states that the collection "just misses being the perfect single-CD Jimi Hendrix anthology". He notes that while the compilation includes some of Hendrix's noteworthy later work, it lacks several songs from his earlier Smash Hits compilation.
The album reached number 18 in the UK and number 133 in the US. In 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America certified it as "2x platinum" for shipping two million copies.

Track listing

The titles and running times are taken from the original Experience Hendrix CD US release. Other releases may show different information. Entries under "Original release" are for both the US and UK, unless otherwise indicated.
Bonus disc
The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks, taken from The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set.

Personnel

Personnel information is taken from the original Experience Hendrix CD US release; other releases may show different information.

Musicians