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The new Jimi Hendrix release has reached #4 on charts 40 years after the artist’s death.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Valleys of Neptune debuted on The Billboard top 200 chart at #4. Not bad for a man who died 40 years ago.
The only other musician to break into the Billboard top five so many years after his death is Elvis Presley with Elvis: 2nd to None, which hit #3 in 2003. It was an impressive 26 years after he died.
Johnny Cash was the most recent artist to top the charts postmortem when American VI: Ain’t No Grave reached #3.
Hendrix has 33 other albums that have appeared on The Billboard 200, and four top-five albums while he was alive. Two other Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love in 1971 and Crash Landing in 1975, reached top-5 status after his death. Before the release of Valleys of Neptune, which boasts “never commercially available” music, it had been 10 years since an official Hendrix release.
The celebrated guitarist rose to fame in 1967 when he performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Only 3 short years later, he overdosed on drugs in London.
http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200#/charts/billboard-200
'Valleys Of Neptune:' A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Steve Scher
03/22/2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Jimi Hendrix was very busy in 1969. Coming off the success of the number one album, "Electric Ladyland," Hendrix had developed a reputation as both a masterful showman and a brilliant experimentalist. That year, Jimi built his own recording studio, closed the show at Woodstock, and recorded with a new group, The Band of Gypsys. All the while, he kept up a busy touring schedule and recorded constantly.
Unlike contemporary artists like The Beatles and Bob Dylan, Hendrix was not contractually obligated to record at a specific studio. Consequently, he could record wherever he pleased and would grab studio time where and when he could.
The album, "Valleys of Neptune" is a chronicle of Jimi's studio experiments in 1969 and 1970. He seemed to have two goals: To perfect some of his earlier material (which he thought to be uneven) and to find a new musical direction. These 12, previously unreleased recordings help answer the question: Where was Jimi headed next?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Valleys of Neptune debuted on The Billboard top 200 chart at #4. Not bad for a man who died 40 years ago.
The only other musician to break into the Billboard top five so many years after his death is Elvis Presley with Elvis: 2nd to None, which hit #3 in 2003. It was an impressive 26 years after he died.
Johnny Cash was the most recent artist to top the charts postmortem when American VI: Ain’t No Grave reached #3.
Hendrix has 33 other albums that have appeared on The Billboard 200, and four top-five albums while he was alive. Two other Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love in 1971 and Crash Landing in 1975, reached top-5 status after his death. Before the release of Valleys of Neptune, which boasts “never commercially available” music, it had been 10 years since an official Hendrix release.
The celebrated guitarist rose to fame in 1967 when he performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Only 3 short years later, he overdosed on drugs in London.
http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200#/charts/billboard-200
'Valleys Of Neptune:' A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Steve Scher
03/22/2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Jimi Hendrix was very busy in 1969. Coming off the success of the number one album, "Electric Ladyland," Hendrix had developed a reputation as both a masterful showman and a brilliant experimentalist. That year, Jimi built his own recording studio, closed the show at Woodstock, and recorded with a new group, The Band of Gypsys. All the while, he kept up a busy touring schedule and recorded constantly.
Unlike contemporary artists like The Beatles and Bob Dylan, Hendrix was not contractually obligated to record at a specific studio. Consequently, he could record wherever he pleased and would grab studio time where and when he could.
The album, "Valleys of Neptune" is a chronicle of Jimi's studio experiments in 1969 and 1970. He seemed to have two goals: To perfect some of his earlier material (which he thought to be uneven) and to find a new musical direction. These 12, previously unreleased recordings help answer the question: Where was Jimi headed next?
I read where the Royal Albert Hall concert release is in the works...
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