Jimi Hendrix
Red House: Variations on a Theme
1968-70

A few years ago, Alan Douglas put out a 6 CDs for a music learning company. With the exception of this CD, all were made up of short sections of songs, meant to show various effects that Hendrix used in making his music. An interesting concept, but would you want to listen to 17 seconds of Voodoo Child, followed by 14 seconds of Spanish Castle Magic, followed by...get the idea? Which brings us to this CD. Red House is probably Jimi's most well known blues song, and on this CD you get 6 versions plus one done in tribute to Jimi by John Lee Hooker. A good CD, almost definitely out of print now, though I have seen it at the larger record chains. One note, if you listen to track 3 of this CD, and compare it to the Red House Electric Church version found on Blues, you will notice the section where Jimi introduces the people playing at the beginning of the song has been edited out on `Blues'.

1. Red House - Berkeley, CA 30 May 70    7:31
2. Red House - Newport Pop, Newport RI, 20 June 69    8:12
3. Red House - Studio, Hollywood, CA 1969    7:20
4. Red House - Los Angeles Forum 26 April 69    10:53
5. Red House - Royal Albert Hall, London, 24 Feb 69    11:39
6. Red House - Winterland, San Francisco, 10 Oct 68    14:13
7. Red House - John Lee Hooker    3:46

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