Jimi Hendrix

Valleys of Neptune

2010 sees the release of the newly curated Jimi Hendrix album 'Valleys of Neptune'. This is more than 60 minutes of previously unavailable material from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called “the greatest guitarist of all time”.

Centered around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969, 'Valleys of Neptune' unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience's final studio recordings. Here the group lays down the foundation for its follow-up to 'Electric Ladyland', alongside the guitar superhero's first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he'd recruited into his new ensemble. 

'Valleys of Neptune' provides an essential, compelling, and largely unseen view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of 'Electric Ladyland' in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. The state of the art facility is also where he would begin his final project, the ambitious double album 'First Rays of the New Rising Sun'.

Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, noted, "My brother Jimi was at home in the studio. 'Valleys of Neptune' offers deep insight into his mastery of the recording process and demonstrates the fact that he was as unparalleled a recording innovator as he was a guitarist. His brilliance shines through on every one of these precious tracks."

'Valleys of Neptune' offers more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded, and newly mixed for this historic release, by Hendrix's longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on 'Are You Experienced'? in 1967.  'Valleys of Neptune' is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Eddie Kramer.

Other highlights on 'Valleys of Neptune' include blazing studio covers of Elmore James' classic 'Bleeding Heart' and Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love,' as well as premier performances of original Hendrix compositions like 'Ships Passing Through The Night,' 'Lullaby For The Summer,' and the original recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of 'Hear My Train A Comin'.   Also included in 'Valleys of Neptune' is 'Mr. Bad Luck,' a Jimi Hendrix Experience track, produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 'Axis: Bold as Love' sessions.


'Valleys of Neptune' is a previously unreleased studio album featuring:

12 previously unreleased studio recordings

Over 60 minutes of unheard Jimi Hendrix!

'Valleys of Neptune', one of the most sought after of all Hendrix's commercially unavailable recordings

Unheard studio versions of Hendrix's inspired interpretations of 'Bleeding Heart' by Elmore James and Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love'

Also includes exciting 1969 arrangements of classic signature songs 'Red House', 'Fire' and 'Stone Free'

Cover art by Hendrix himself

Tracklisting:

1. Stone Love
2. Valleys Of Neptune
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Hear My Train A Comin'
5. Mr. Bad Luck
6. Sunshine Of Your Love
7. Lover Man
8. Ships Passing Through The Night
9. Fire
10. Red House
11. Lullaby For The Summer
12. Crying Blue