Voodoo Soup
Voodoo Soup | ||||
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Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix | ||||
Released | April 11, 1995 (1995-04-11) | |||
Recorded | 1968–1970; 1995 (overdubs) | |||
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Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 56:57 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | Alan Douglas | |||
Jimi Hendrix U.S. chronology | ||||
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Voodoo Soup is a posthumous compilation album[1] by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, released in the United States on April 11, 1995, by MCA Records. It was one of the last Hendrix albums produced by Alan Douglas, who was also responsible for the posthumous Hendrix releases Midnight Lightning and Crash Landing in 1975.
Background
Voodoo Soup was Douglas' attempt at presenting Hendrix's planned fourth studio album. The first attempt in 1971, The Cry of Love, produced by drummer Mitch Mitchell and Eddie Kramer (with a credit to Hendrix), was then out of print (last released on CD in 1992; re-released in 2014).[2] After Experience Hendrix, a family company, gained control of his recordings, First Rays of the New Rising Sun was released in 1997 as another attempt to realize the album Hendrix had planned. Since then, Voodoo Soup has remained out of print.
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[5] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | [6] |
Reviewing for Entertainment Weekly in 1995, music critic David Browne said that, unlike other assorted compilations of Hendrix's music, Voodoo Soup coheres and sounds "as fluid and cohesive as a preconceived record, without a bad song in the bunch".[5] Vibe magazine called it a valuable release in Hendrix's discography, in spite of Douglas's questionable decision to overdub newly recorded drums to some songs,[7] while a reviewer from Melody Maker said the overly detailed liner notes cannot change the fact "it's opened my ears to the near God-like genius of Jimi Hendrix".[8] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said in his review that the compilation's mostly exceptional songs suggest Hendrix was considering a variety of paths in his music before dying in 1970.[4] Stereo Review magazine's Parke Puterbaugh applauded the recording quality and concluded, "What's most impressive about Voodoo Soup is how contemporary – or, rather, timeless – Hendrix's music sounds a quarter-century later. His creative intensity and musical vitality tower above anything else ever attempted, before or since, in popular music."[9]
Voodoo Soup was later praised by Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray, who claimed it "more than earns its place in the pantheon of great Hendrix albums" as it "brought the Hendrix studio quartet -finally!- to a satisfactory conclusion".[10] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine was more critical in a retrospective review: "For most fans, the re-recorded drum tracks by the drummer of the Knack was the most unforgivable sin, yet the album is also poorly sequenced and lacks several important tracks."[3]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix
No. | Title | Original version | Length |
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1. | "The New Rising Sun" | West Coast Seattle Boy (7:24)[a] | 3:21 |
2. | "Belly Button Window" | The Cry of Love | 3:34 |
3. | "Stepping Stone" | War Heroes | 4:07 |
4. | "Freedom" | The Cry of Love | 3:25 |
5. | "Angel" | The Cry of Love | 4:18 |
6. | "Room Full of Mirrors" | Rainbow Bridge | 3:09 |
7. | "Midnight" | War Heroes | 6:01 |
8. | "Night Bird Flying" | The Cry of Love | 3:46 |
9. | "Drifting" | The Cry of Love | 3:52 |
10. | "Ezy Ryder" | The Cry of Love | 4:08 |
11. | "Pali Gap" | Rainbow Bridge | 4:42 |
12. | "Message to Love" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience[a] | 3:33 |
13. | "Peace in Mississippi" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience (reissue)[a] | 5:22 |
14. | "In from the Storm" | The Cry of Love | 3:39 |
Personnel
- Jimi Hendrix – guitars, vocals
- Billy Cox – bass guitar
- Mitch Mitchell – drums
- Juma Sultan – percussion
- Buddy Miles – drums on "Ezy Ryder", "Message to Love"
- Noel Redding – bass guitar on "Peace in Mississippi" and "Midnight"
- Bruce Gary – re-recorded drum track on "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Stepping Stone"
- Alan Douglas- production
- Mark Linett- engineer
- Joe Gastwirt- Mastering
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Douglas included versions of "The New Rising Sun" (as "Gypsy Boy"), "Message to Love", and "Peace in Mississippi" on his controversial overdubbed albums produced in 1975.
References
- ^ McDermott, John; Kramer, Eddie; Cox, Billy (2009). Ultimate Hendrix: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Live Concerts and Sessions. Hal Leonard. p. 225. ISBN 978-0879309381. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ^ "The Cry of Love' & 'Rainbow Bridge' to Be Reissued on CD & LP September 16". JimiHendrix (official website). 2014-08-20. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
- ^ a b AllMusic review
- ^ a b Kot, Greg (1995). "Voodoo Soup (MCA)". Chicago Tribune. No. May 11. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ a b Browne, David (April 21, 1995). "Review". Entertainment Weekly. No. 271. New York. p. 54. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ Evans, Paul (1999). "Jimi Hendrix". In Swenson, John (ed.). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. New York City: Random House. p. 305. ISBN 0679768734.
- ^ "Review". Vibe. No. August. New York City: Eldridge Industries. 1995. p. 130. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ "Review". Melody Maker. No. May 27. 1995. p. 37.
- ^ Puterbaugh, Parke (September 1995). "Voodoo Soup". Stereo Review. Vol. 60. p. 93.
- ^ Murray, Charles Shaar (2001). Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Postwar Pop. Faber and Faber. p. 272.
Further reading
- Sexton, Paul (1995). "Rare Material, Altered Tracks Mark MCA's New Hendrix Set". Billboard. No. April 15. New York. p. 42.
External links
- Voodoo Soup at Discogs (list of releases)
- v
- t
- e
- Are You Experienced
- Axis: Bold as Love
- Electric Ladyland
- The Cry of Love
- Rainbow Bridge
- War Heroes
- Loose Ends
- Crash Landing
- Midnight Lightning
- Nine to the Universe
- Voodoo Soup
- First Rays of the New Rising Sun
- South Saturn Delta
- Valleys of Neptune
- People, Hell and Angels
- Both Sides of the Sky
- Band of Gypsys
- Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
- Experience
- Isle of Wight
- Hendrix in the West
- More Experience
- The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
- Jimi Plays Monterey
- Johnny B. Goode
- Band of Gypsys 2
- Live at Winterland
- Radio One
- Stages
- Live Isle of Wight '70
- Woodstock
- BBC Sessions
- Live at the Fillmore East
- Live at Woodstock
- Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight
- Live at Berkeley
- Live at Monterey
- Winterland
- Miami Pop Festival
- Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival
- Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show
- Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
- Live in Maui
- Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969
retrospective
albums
- Smash Hits
- Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix
- The Essential Jimi Hendrix
- The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two
- The Singles Album
- Kiss the Sky
- Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show
- Cornerstones: 1967–1970
- Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story
- The Ultimate Experience
- Blues
- South Saturn Delta
- Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
- The Singles Collection
- Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix
- West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
- Fire: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
and tributes
- Rainbow Bridge
- Jimi Hendrix
- Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
- Hendrix
- Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
- Room Full of Mirrors
- An Illustrated Experience
- Becoming Jimi Hendrix
- Jimi: All Is by My Side
and acts
- Curtis Knight
- Lonnie Youngblood
- Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Noel Redding
- Mitch Mitchell
- Chas Chandler
- Eddie Kramer
- Roger Mayer
- Michael Jeffery
- Billy Cox
- Buddy Miles
- Alan Douglas
- Leon Hendrix
- Kathy Etchingham
- Monika Dannemann
- Category