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1994 saw the release of the Alan Douglas produced "Blues" album. This was seen as one of his better efforts during his time managing Jimi's music. A cassette containing three outtakes was sent to a couple of high profile collectors shortly after. This tape contained Villanova Junction Blues, Hear My train A Comin' and Belly Button Window. For a while this tape was in very limited circulation amongst a few hard core collectors. Later the tracks saw the first light of day on the bootleg "500000 Halos"which was named after line in a poem written by Jimi post Woodstock. However there were more outtakes than those three and more has leaked out over the years (albeit in limited circulation).

I am slightly dubious about the generation of this material but it is nevertheless of extremely high quality. There is a certain amount of tape hiss present here and there but that could just be from the transfer to cassette. The cassette I originally received with the three tracks exhibited slight hiss as well. The tracks on this disc are taken from a set of 11 CDRS titled the Blues Project Outtakes.

Notes

Hear My train A Comin' is a composite made by Douglas of two different takes. New Rising Sun and the 27 minute Band Of Gypsys Villanova jam are not in general circulation as far as I know. Country Blues was released on the EH Box Set but this version of the straight mix is longer. 







Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Blues Project Outtakes.


1. New Rising Sun (8.26)
2. Country Blues (straight mix) (8.37)
3. Hear My train A Comin' (8.07)
4. Belly Button Window (2.25)
5. The Things That I used To Do (5.45)
6. Villanova Junction Blues Jam (27.34)
7. 3 Little Bears- South Saturn Delta (12.44)


Details

1-7 Master reels > cassette > DAT > CDR > Soundstudio > Shorten >shtn (Studio recordings)