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Jimi Hendrix – ‘Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts’ – Out Now

November 22, 2019

Collecting all four historic Hendrix Band of Gypsies performances from the Fillmore East, including more than two dozen previously unreleased and/or remixed new tracks, we’re pleased to announce this intriguing 5CD box set, out now with vinyl to follow on December 13.

Emerging from the ashes of ’69 Woodstock line up, Hendrix Band of Gypsies saw the legendary guitarist reunite with bass player (and former 101st airborne brother in arms) Billy Cox, as well as Electric Flag drummer Buddy Miles.

Their debut live performances were a series of four concerts at the Fillmore East in Manhattan – two on New Year’s Eve 1969 and two on New Year’s Day 1970, each of which were professionally recorded. Hendrix had sold out Madison Square Garden just nine months prior, but the Fillmore East was chosen as the setting for a live recording.

True to unpredictable form, Hendrix opened the four-show stint with a masterful, eleven song set featuring not a single commercially released track. Exciting new songs such as ‘Izabella’, ‘Ezy Ryder’ and ‘Burning Desire’ thrilled the sold-out house.

This lavish 5CD/8LP box set is completed by unseen photographs from talents like Filmore East house photographer Amalie Rothschild, new liner notes from the Billy Cox himself and every tune has been artfully mastered by Grammy award winning engineer Bernie Grundman.

Jimi Hendrix – ‘Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts’ – Out Now

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That tracklisting in full:

12/31/69 1st Set:
DISC ONE
1) Power Of Soul
2) Lover Man
3) Hear My Train A Comin’
4) Changes
5) Izabella
6) Machine Gun
7) Stop
8) Ezy Ryder
9) Bleeding Heart
10) Earth Blues
11) Burning Desire

12/31/69 2nd Set:
DISC TWO
1) Auld Lang Syne**
2) Who Knows**
3) Fire
4) Ezy Ryder*
5) Machine Gun**
6) Stone Free
7) Changes*
8) Message To Love*
9) Stop*
10) Foxey Lady

1/1/70 1st Set:
DISC THREE
1) Who Knows
2) Machine Gun
3) Changes+
4) Power Of Soul**
5) Stepping Stone**
6) Foxey Lady+
7) Stop**
8) Earth Blues+
9) Burning Desire**

1/1/70 2nd Set:
DISC FOUR
1) Stone Free**
2) Power Of Soul#
3) Changes#
4) Message To Love#
5) Machine Gun**
6) Lover Man*
7) Steal Away*
8) Earth Blues**

DISC FIVE
1) Voodoo Child (Slight Return)**
2) We Gotta Live Together#
3) Wild Thing**
4) Hey Joe*
5) Purple Haze*

*previously unreleased
+first time on CD/LP/streaming (previously only available as part of concert film)
#longer, unedited versions of previously released material, and newly remixed
**back in print on CD/LP for the first time in a decade, and newly remixed

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