Jimi Hendrix
War Heroes
Mulitiple Studio locations - Electric Ladyland, Olympic, Olmstead, The Record Plant, The Hit Factory
1968-70

War Heroes was the 3rd posthumous studio album, released on 1 October 1972 in the UK. The US version was released in Dec 72. It was engineered, mixed and compiled by Eddie Kramer and John Jansen. Though Hendrix produced many of the songs, he was not credited for such. War Heroes contains the three remaining tracks featured on First Rays of the New Rising Sun which were not included on The Cry of Love or Rainbow Bridge: "Stepping Stone", "Izabella" and "Beginnings".

1. Bleeding Heart (Elmore James) – 3:18
2. Highway Chile – 3:34
3. Tax Free (Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson) – 4:58
4. Peter Gunn Catastrophe (Henry Mancini, Hendrix) – 2:20
5. Stepping Stone – 4:11
6. Midnight (Noel Redding) – 5:35
7. 3 Little Bears – 4:16
8. Beginning (Mitch Mitchell) – 4:13
9. Izabella – 2:51

Jimi Hendrix – guitars, lead vocals, bass on track 1, backing vocals on track 9
Mitch Mitchell – drums
Noel Redding – bass on tracks 2, 6 and 7
Billy Cox – bass on tracks 4, 5, 8 and 9, backing vocals on track 9
Buddy Miles – drums on tracks 5 and 9 (track 5 wiped), backing vocals on track 9
Juma Sultan – percussion on tracks 1, 8 and 9 (track 8 wiped), bongos on track 8 (wiped)
Jerry Velez – percussion on track 9

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