Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix...Episode #18

About this episode

In this episode of Classic Rock Album Olympics music historians Gary Wenstrup and Robert Rodriguez discuss the songs that win their gold, silver and bronze medals from Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced. Medal Winners The Wind Cries Mary Are You Experienced? Fire Hey Joe Purple Haze   Bonus Tracks Incense & Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones The Real Me – Who Hey Joe – Tim Rose Down By The River – Neil Young Oh Woman, Oh Why – Paul McCartney Come And Get It – Badfinger Little Wing – Derek And The Dominos Red House – Jimi Remember – Jimi 51st Anniversary – Jimi Are You Experienced VH1 Classic video Green Door – Jim Lowe   Released in the United States in 1967, the album introduced American audiences to The Jimi Hendrix Experience and instantly redefined what a rock music could sound like.  The album showcases Hendrix’s unique blend of blues roots, psychedelic experimentation, and innovative and explosive guitar tones.  Are You Experienced expanded the vocabulary of rock music. Its use of feedback, studio effects, and genre-blending songwriting helped shape psychedelic rock, hard rock, and future guitar-driven music for decades