![]() All have their merits, but in the desert-island scenario, you’d pick this newly exhumed version, representing Take 15 from a December 1969 session at New York’s Record Plant. It’s fair to say that Earth Blues has been around the block, with its pugnacious riff cropping up on beyond-the-grave compilations from 1971’s Rainbow Bridge to 1999’s Live At The Fillmore East. Released as a single, Freedom scraped inauspiciously to US No.59, but it’s Hendrix bobbing near the top of his game. It peaks at the off with Freedom, a thrill-ride rocker that rattles along on chippy riffs, falling-down-the-stairs drums, a hot-buttered funk breakdown and cries of ‘ Freedom!’ pinballing around the mix like an Arab Spring revolution. With the pick of his vaults to choose from, it was the first posthumous Hendrix record, and unmatched until 1997’s First Rays Of The New Rising Sun made a more accurate job of approximating what would have been his next album. In 1971, The Cry Of Love showed that death was only a minor obstacle to Jimi’s continuing output. Freedom (First Rays Of The New Rising Sun)
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