Jimi Hendrix Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival (2LP 200g Gatefold) 2xLP Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label:    Experience Hendrix – 88875099781, Legacy – 88875099781
Format:    2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, 200 Gram
Country:    US
Released:    Aug 28, 2015
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock

A1        Fire
A2        Lover Man
A3        Spanish Castle Magic
A4        Red House
B1        Room Full Of Mirrors
B2        Hear My Train A Comin'
B3        Message To Love
C1        All Along The Watchtower
Written-By – Bob Dylan
C2        Freedom
C3        Foxey Lady
C4        Purple Haze
C5        Hey Joe
Written-By – Billy Roberts
D1        Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
D2        Stone Free
D3        Star Spangled Banner
D4        Straight Ahead

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.
Copyright © – Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.
Licensed To – Sony Music Entertainment
Published By – Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.
Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Produced For – Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.
Recorded At – Atlanta International Pop Festival
Pressed By – Quality Record Pressings
Mixed At – Electric Lady Studios
Mixed At – LAFX Studios
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Design – Phil Yarnall, Smay Design
Engineer [Assistamt] – Phil Joly, Spencer Guerra
Liner Notes – Bill Mankin
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Photography By – Crazy Jim Wiggins*
Photography By, Cover – Sam Feinsilver
Producer – Janie Hendrix, John McDermott
Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Eddie Kramer
Written-By – Jimi Hendrix (tracks: A1 to B3, C2 to C4, D1 to D4)
Atlanta Pop Festival, Byron, Georgia, July 4, 1970
Unnumbered copies pressed after the first 5,000 numbered.

For the US 2015 release, 200 gram limited and numbered edition, see Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival,
For the US 2015 release in standard edition (180 gram), see Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival,
For the EU 2015 release (180 gram), see Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival.
Barcode (Text): 8 88750 99781 4

Jimi Hendrix's headlining appearance at the Atlanta Pop Festival would be the largest U.S. audience he would ever play to. Most people assume it was Woodstock, which was a larger festival, but by the time Jimi took the stage at around 9 a.m. on Monday morning, the Woodstock crowd was down to about 25,000 stragglers. Estimated between 300,000 and 400,000, the actual crowd at Hendrix's Atlanta Pop performance was hard to pin down due to the fact that many of the festivalgoers turned up after dark, in an effort to stay out of the stifling heat of Atlanta in the summertime. The trio of Jimi, Mitch, and Billy Cox had been touring for about two and a half months solid when July 4 rolled around, and they sound really tight kicking off the show. "Fire" starts the set, and one immediately notices how differently Billy Cox plays it versus Noel Redding. "Spanish Castle Magic" has Jimi trying out some new solo ideas and he really starts feeling it on a very improvisational, extended "Red House." A rare live performance of "Room Full of Mirrors" is followed by an absolutely incredible version of "Hear My Train A Comin'." Jimi is just in amazing form as the ideas just keep coming: the entire solo is so well constructed it could almost be composed. This is a guitar performance nearly equal to "Machine Gun" on Band of Gypsys, and worth the price of admission by itself. After a nice version of "Message to Love," things falter just a bit with Jimi blowing his vocal entrance and muffing some lyrics on "All Along the Watchtower" followed by a good, not great, version of "Freedom." He starts finding his guitar groove again though, and by "Hey Joe" he's once again in excellent form. A solid version of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" leads into a really nice extended version of "Stone Free" with some cool new solo ideas. "Star Spangled Banner" is actually punctuated with real fireworks and the set closes with another new song, "Straight Ahead." The music on Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival has been available in collector's circles for some time, but it has never sounded better than it does here. Despite a brief lull mid-set, the revamped Experience turned in an exciting show on July 4, 1970, and with "Hear My Train A Comin'," Jimi turned in one of the greatest solos of his career. ~ Sean Westergaard

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: Rock
• Format: Vinyl
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Type: 2xLP
• Released: 08/28/2015