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Like guitar feedback gradually rising from a whisper to a scream, a new album of previously unheard Hendrix recordings summons excitement among rock lovers like little else on the planet. And this isn’t just a set of alternate takes or even discarded songs; it’s a window into where Jimi wanted to go next after the Experience. Outside of his work with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, he got together with new collaborators (and old friends from the R&B circuit) and experimented with horns, keyboards, percussion and second guitar. Not only do these 12 recordings introduce new directions Jimi planned to take—they also feature some of the most mind-blowing guitar wizardry he ever recorded. Here, on CD or two 200-gram LPs are a funky stripped-down "Earth Blues" (with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles), "Somewhere" (Stephen Stills on bass), "Hear My Train A Comin’," "Villanova Junction Blues" and "Bleeding Heart" (those three from his first session with Billy and Buddy), "Let Me Move You," (Jimi trading riffs with sax man Lonnie Youngblood), "Izabella" (very different from the Band of Gypsys version), the gorgeous instrumental "Easy Blues" (nearly twice as long as the previously heard version), "Crash Landing" (April ’69 recording), "Inside Out" (just Jimi and Mitch Mitchell), "Hey Gypsy Boy" (undubbed) and "Mojo Man," which perfectly encapsulated the soulful yet spacey sound Jimi called his "new type of blues"! Sony Legacy.