The upcoming Jimi Hendrix release `Valleys of Neptune` features 12 never before released recordings by the late guitar legend.
The album documents the final studio recordings made by Hendrix in 1969 with the original Jimi Hendrix Experience and his first works with new bass player Billy Cox.Some of the tracks you know. Some you have never heard before. All of the tracks are previously unreleased recordings.
One of the classics you know is ‘Stone Free’.
The original 1966 recording by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience is best known as one of Jimi’s signature songs. The 2000 Jimi Hendrix Experience Box Set featured a new remake by the original group. Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox recorded this version in May 1969. It is a different recording entirely.
In the lead-up to the release Sony Music is offering a chance at a not-for-sale limited edition collectors item Jimi Hendrix iPod Touch to be won for anyone who preorders the album here.
The prize includes the collectors edition Valleys of Neptune iPod Touch, a Jimi Hendrix canvas print and a CD pack featuring the newly remastered Jimi Hendrix CD collection.
Sony Music will release Jimi Hendrix ‘Valleys of Neptune’ on March 12.
