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“The BBC Sessions” is a singular album of recordings by the “Jimi Hendrix Experience” rock band. The album was comprised of the remaining surviving tracks from their various appearances on prior BBC radio broadcasts, such as Saturday Club and Top Gear, all recorded in 1967. The album of these sessions was released on June 2, 1998, on the MCA recording label.
At a BBC radio session, a practice still alive in British radio today, a band is required to record material in a studio quickly with limited overdubbing, largely limited to and relying upon their live sound. Many groups as part of this tradition choose to record some songs that are not part of their main repertoire. The album also includes the only two surviving Hendrix UK TV soundtracks (both BBC) Late Night Line Up ("Manic Depression" only survives) and the 1969 Lulu Show (complete). BBC Sessions therefore offers its own unique example of the Experience sound, and a revealing glimpse of a song from their early repertoire Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and their only known studio recording of Bob Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
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While I cannot include any recordings in this diary from that album (cannot find them anywhere on the internet that I can download for this diary), here are a few of the more familiar and popular songs from that band era to enjoy — The music of my life...
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