People, Hell and Angels

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People, Hell and Angels
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Compilation album by
Jimi Hendrix
ReleasedMarch 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)
RecordedMarch 1968 – August 1970
Studio
Genre Blues rock [1]
Length52:33
Label Legacy
Producer
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Winterland
(2011)		People, Hell and Angels
(2013)		 Miami Pop Festival
(2013)
Singles from People, Hell and Angels
  1. "Somewhere"
    Released: February 5, 2013

People, Hell and Angels is a posthumous compilation album [2] by the American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. The fourth release under the Experience Hendrix deal with Legacy Recordings, it contains twelve previously unreleased recordings of tracks he was working on for the planned follow-up to Electric Ladyland . It was released on March 5, 2013.

Contents

Background

The tracks featured on People, Hell and Angels are previously unreleased recordings of songs that Jimi Hendrix and fellow band members (mainly the Band of Gypsys lineup featuring Billy Cox and Buddy Miles) were working on as the follow-up to Electric Ladyland, tentatively titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun . [3] The majority of the recordings are drawn from sessions in 1968 and 1969 at the Record Plant Studios in New York, with a few inclusions from Hendrix's brief residencies at Sound Centre, the Hit Factory, and his own Electric Lady Studios. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Consequence of Sound C− [7]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
NME 8/10 [10]
PopMatters 7/10 [11]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [14]

People, Hell and Angels received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 74, based on 18 reviews. [15] In Rolling Stone , David Fricke said Hendrix "plays at an elevated level in every setting" on the album, [13] while The Wire called the recordings "among the best of Hendrix's late work". [16] Patrick Humphries from BBC Music wrote that it "offers a tantalising glimpse of how Hendrix's genius might have progressed". [17] AllMusic's Sean Westergaard was less enthusiastic and said the album "certainly isn't the place to start your Hendrix collection, but collectors will surely want to hear this". [5] Writing for MSN Music, Robert Christgau called it a quality collection of leftovers highlighted by the songs "Somewhere" and "Let Me Move You", in which Hendrix comps behind saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood. [18]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted

No.TitleRecording date(s) and studio(s)Length
1."Earth Blues"December 19, 1969, at Record Plant Studios 3:33
2."Somewhere"March 13, 1968, at the Sound Centre4:05
3."Hear My Train A Comin'"May 21, 1969, at Record Plant Studios5:41
4."Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James)May 21, 1969, at Record Plant Studios3:58
5."Let Me Move You"March 18, 1969, at Record Plant Studios6:50
6."Izabella"August 28, 1969, at the Hit Factory 3:42
7."Easy Blues"August 28, 1969, at the Hit Factory5:57
8."Crash Landing"April 24, 1969, at Record Plant Studios4:14
9."Inside Out"June 11, 1968, at Record Plant Studios5:03
10."Hey Gypsy Boy"March 18, 1969, at Record Plant Studios3:39
11."Mojo Man" (Albert Allen, Arthur Allen)June 1969, at Fame Studios
August 1970 at Electric Lady Studios (overdubs)		4:07
12."Villanova Junction Blues"May 21, 1969, at Record Plant Studios1:44
Total length:52:33
Target bonus track [19]
No.TitleRecording date and studioLength
13."Ezy Ryder/MLK Jam [Captain Coconut]"January 23, 1970, at Record Plant Studios20:01
Total length:72:34

Personnel

Charts

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