Voodoo Soup

Infobox Album
Name = Voodoo Soup
Type = compilation
Artist = Jimi Hendrix


Released = April 11, 1995
Recorded = 1968-1970
Genre = Rock, Acid Rock, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Hard rock, Funk rock
Length = 56:57
Label = MCA
Producer = Alan Douglas
Last album = "Blues" (1994)
This album = "Voodoo Soup" (1995)
Next album = "" (1995)

"Voodoo Soup" is a posthumous album by Jimi Hendrix. It was released on April 11, 1995 by MCA Records and was compiled by Alan Douglas, who was also responsible for the posthumous Hendrix releases "Midnight Lightning" and "Crash Landing" in the 1970s. The album was made up of unfinished studio recordings which were intended to be released on Hendrix's newest studio album, which was never-to-be. Douglas is a controversial figure amongst Hendrix fans, as on his previous releases he had brought in musicians who had never worked with Hendrix to overdub damaged/badly recorded drum, bass and even guitar parts. For the production of this album, two tracks' drum parts were overdubbed by Bruce Gary of The Knack, "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Stepping Stone". Most of the tracks on this album were released - in one form or another - on either "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" or "South Saturn Delta" in later years, with the exception of the instrumentals "New Rising Sun" and "Peace in Mississippi". "Voodoo Soup" is no longer available to purchase, as it was deleted when the Hendrix family gained control of his recordings, and has been replaced by "First Rays of the New Rising Sun".

The album was badly received by some fans who objected to the overdubbing, and it also omits several notable songs, such as "Dolly Dagger" and "Izabella". However, the album was praised by Charles Shaar Murray, the author of the acclaimed book "Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop", who claimed that it "more than earns its place in the pantheon of great Hendrix albums" and said that it "brought the Hendrix studio quartet -finally!- to a satisfactory conclusion." [cite book|author=Murray, Charles Shaar|title=Crosstown Traffic:Jimi Hendrix and Postwar Pop|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2001|pages=272]

Track listing

"All songs written by Jimi Hendrix."

#"The New Rising Sun" – 3:21 (previously unreleased)
#"Belly Button Window" – 3:34 (from ("The Cry of Love")
#"Stepping Stone" – 4:07 (from "War Heroes")
#"Freedom" – 3:25 (from "The Cry of Love")
#"Angel" – 4:18 (from "The Cry of Love")
#"Room Full of Mirrors" – 3:09 (from "Rainbow Bridge")
#"Midnight" – 6:01 (from "War Heroes")
#"Night Bird Flying" – 3:46 (from "The Cry of Love")
#"Drifting" – 3:52 (from "The Cry of Love")
#"Ezy Ryder" – 4:08 (from "The Cry of Love")
#"Pali Gap" – 4:42 (from "Rainbow Bridge")
#"Message to Love" – 3:33 (from "Crash Landing")
#"Peace in Mississippi" – 5:32 (from "Crash Landing")
#"In From the Storm" – 3:39 (from "The Cry of Love")

Personnel

*Jimi Hendrix – vocals, guitar, piano
*Billy Cox - bass guitar, backing vocals
*Mitch Mitchell - drums
*Buddy Miles - drums on "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Ezy Ryder"
*Juma Sultan - percussion

Notes

*Tracks 2-6, 8, 9 and 10 re-released on "First Rays of the New Rising Sun"
*Tracks 7, 11, 12 and 14 re-released on "South Saturn Delta"

References

ee also

*List of best-selling music artists
*Jimi Hendrix discography