Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. in conjunction with Classic Records are set to release "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix" on high-grade, limited edition vinyl this January. Available in two limited edition versions, the title will be released on blue colored vinyl using Classic Records' patented QUEIX-SVP process utilizing high grade, 200gram virgin vinyl. The blue vinyl release will be released in limited quantities, each individually numbered.

Shortly following the blue vinyl release, Experience Hendrix and Classic Records will release a limited edition, unnumbered series on black vinyl. This release will also featured the sensational QUEIX-SVP process on 200g virgin vinyl. Both of these releases are sure to become instant classics amongst vinyl collectors.

"Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix" features 10 superb examples of Jimi's blues explorations. In addition to such favorites as Electric Ladyland's "Voodoo Chile, " the album boasts two previously unreleased recordings from 1969, "Georgia Blues" and "Blue Window". The album also includes an essay by Jimi's longtime girlfriend Faye Pridgon. Pridgon shared Jimi's enduring passion for blues and her essay provides compelling new insights into Jimi's quest for his favorite blues recordings as well as the joyous evenings spent exploring the deep collection of blues 45's & 78's owned by Pridgon's Georgia born mother. "The most phenomenal fact of Jimi's dedication to and respect for this underclassed art form known as Blues was that he dared toembrace this homegrown sound, denounced and orphaned by the majority of its founding people," details Pridgon in her essay. "It was as though the Universe assigned him to personally defend the almost homeless, bastard music from which he insisted all others (American, at least) were born."

Apart from "Red House", none of the album's ten tracks are repeated from the 1994 compilation Jimi Hendrix: Blues. Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix presents Hendrix pushing the boundaries of the genre, incorporating such elements as horns, keyboards, harmonica, and even twelve-string guitar together with his own trademark improvisational style. The album spans the course of his entire career, ranging from the sparse, solo 1970 recording of "Midnight Lightning" reminiscent of John Lee Hooker through to incendiary renditions of "Hear My Train A Comin'" and "It's Too Bad".

Both vinyl editions of "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix" will be available from Authentic Hendrix. Stay tuned for complete release details.

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