WELL I,
WAIT AROUND
THE TRAIN STATION
WAITIN' FOR THAT TRAIN
TAKE ME
TAKE ME
AWAY FROM
THIS LONESOME TOWN
People, Hell and Angels
is a
posthumous
compilation album
by the American
rock musician
The fourth release
under the Experience
Hendrix deal with
Legacy Recordings,
it contains twelve
previously
unreleased recordings
of tracks he was working on
for the planned follow-up
to Electric Ladyland.
It was released on
March 5, 2013.
Background
The tracks featured on
People, Hell and Angels
are previously
unreleased recordings
of songs that
Jimi Hendrix
and fellow
band members
mainly the
Band of Gypsys lineup
featuring
Billy Cox
and
Buddy Miles
were working on
as the follow-up to
Electric Ladyland,
tentatively titled
First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
The majority of the recordings
are drawn from sessions
in 1968 and 1969
at the
Record Plant Studios
in New York,
with a few inclusions
from Hendrix's
brief residencies at
Sound Centre,
the Hit Factory,
and his own
Electric Lady Studios.
People, Hell and Angels
received generally positive reviews
from critics.
At Metacritic,
which assigns a
normalized rating out of
100 to reviews
from
mainstream publications,
it received an average score
of 74,
based on 18 reviews.
In Rolling Stone,
David Fricke
said Hendrix
"plays at an elevated level
in every setting"
on the album,
while
The Wire
called the recordings
"among the best of
Hendrix's late work".
Patrick Humphries
from
BBC Music
wrote that it
"offers a tantalising glimpse
of how Hendrix's genius
might have progressed".
AllMusic's
Sean Westergaard
was less enthusiastic
and said the album
"certainly isn't the place
to start your
Hendrix collection,
but collectors will
surely want to hear this".
Writing for
MSN Music,
Robert Christgau
called it a quality collection
of leftovers highlighted
by the songs
"Somewhere"
and
"Let Me Move You",
in which
Hendrix comps
behind saxophonist
Lonnie Youngblood
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