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By Kate Harper, ChartAttack.com, Updated: January 11, 2010 12:00 AM

New Jimi Hendrix Album Coming
Jimi Hendrix has been dead for nearly 40 years, but he's still got some new music in the pipeline.

Hendrix hasn't been composing songs from some otherworldly plane (at least not to our knowledge), but March 9 will see the release of Valleys Of Neptune , an album that will feature over an hour of Hendrix music that's never been commercially released.

Most of Valleys Of Neptune was put down to tape in 1969 and features the Jimi Hendrix Experience's final studio recordings. It was originally supposed to be the follow-up to 1968's Electric Ladyland , and featured new bassist Billy Cox.

The disc's release will be preceded by its title track, which will come out as a single on Feb. 2.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced? , Axis: Bold As Love , Electric Ladyland and First Rays Of The Rising Sun will be reissued in deluxe CD/DVD packages on March 9. They'll also all be available on vinyl. Live At Woodstock , which documents Hendrix's legendary performance at the 1969 music festival, will also be available on DVD.

Here's what's on Valleys Of Neptune :

"Stone Free"
"Valleys Of Neptune"
"Bleeding Heart"
"Hear My Train A Comin'"
"Mr. Bad Luck"
"Sunshine Of Your Love"
"Lover Man"
"Ships Passing Through The Night"
"Fire"
"Red House"
"Lullaby For The Summer"
"Crying Blue Rain"

Interesting. Four of the songs on this set - Hear My Train A Comin', Lover Man, Fire and Red House - were performed by Hendrix during his Woodstock set. It'll be great to hear studio versions of those songs from the same year.

I have about 15 different, but incomplete, versions of the song "Valleys of Neptune". It's a killer track and I can't wait to hear the new release, particularly if it features the whole song, with guitar, bass, vocals and drums all on the same track!

I bought the LPs in the box set back in the late 80s still got them in a box some where up in the loft i will probably find them when i move.My personal is Castles made of sand.Interesting news thanks.

I'm looking forward to this. I just hope the classic rock radio stations won't play to death.

rickenbrother wrote:I just hope the classic rock radio stations won't play to death.

Why would they? It is new music, not classic music.

Was Buddy Miles the drummer on any of these?
JimK