Tracks:
1. Bleeding Heart: 6/10 it's well-played for sure- like every Hendrix song. This one doesn't have enough energy.
2. Highway Chile: 8/10 this song was on Are You Experienced?. It's a very good one and well worth a listen.
3. Tax Free: 8/10 an insane instrumental that shows Hendrix on top form.
4. Peter Gunn Catastrophe: 7/10 an efficient but forgettable guitar solo.
5. Stepping Stone: 8/10 while it's no classic, it's a very enjoyable rock song with a great outro.
6. Midnight: 7/10 as deliciously heavy as ever, yet without any lyrics or substance to back it up it soon just becomes background noise.
7. 3 Little Bears: 5/10 incredibly random and not in a good way, although it's kind of funny.
8. Beginning: 7/10 same as with Midnight pretty much.
9. Izabella: 7/10 it's perfectly decent but I'll forget it in 10 minutes.
Best song: Tax Free
Worst song: 3 Little Bears
Summary: This album lacks the feel-good factor. The guitar playing is fantastic and the album showcases a lot of it, but there's something missing here. There just isn't really any true substance and there are too many instrumentals. It's not reflective of Hendrix at his best, and it's a fairly obscure recording. It isn't available on Spotify or YouTube and tracking each song down on other albums was a bit annoying, especially since there wasn't anything massively compelling awaiting me. It's decent and an enjoyable listen, but it's a rarity which doesn't need to be discovered.
Final rating: 7/10
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