Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC are proud to announce the highly-anticipated
release of West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, featuring more than four
hours of rare and previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music on a 5 Disc (4 CD/1 DVD) deluxe
box set, available Monday, November 15.
The long-awaited career-spanning box set tracks Hendrix’s remarkable journey from little known
R&B sideman to international stardom through an unprecedented assemblage of previously
unavailable recordings. West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is not a
collection of existing Jimi Hendrix albums but instead 45 unreleased Jimi Hendrix live and
studio recordings including demos and alternate versions of songs from Are You Experienced,
Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. West Coast Seattle Boy includes Hendrix?s never
before heard version of Bob Dylan?s ‘Tears Of Rage," solo acoustic recordings of Electric
Ladyland favorites like “Long Hot Summer Night” and “1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)”
as well as never before heard live performances from Berkeley and the legendary Band Of
Gypsys Fillmore East concert on New Year"s Eve 1969 combined together with such new
Hendrix songs as “Hear My Freedom,” “Hound Dog Blues,” “Lonely Avenue” and more.
A centerpiece achievement in Legacy Recordings’ monumental Jimi Hendrix catalog project,
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the first Hendrix collection to bring
fans access to a comprehensive treasure trove of fresh material – including demos, alternate
takes, live concert jewels and more – from all phases of the artist’s recording career (1964 -
1970).
West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology offers the most complete collection of
Jimi’s pre-Experience R&B performances (including his singles with the Isley Brothers, Little
Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis and more) to ever be officially anthologized, while bringing
together the most comprehensive and revelatory set of fully realized songs, never before heard
live performances, alternate studio takes, acoustic and electric demos, and other rarities drawn
from every chapter of Jimi Hendrix’s remarkable life and career.
The newly curated and assembled West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
includes Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child, a new 90 minute documentary directed by the multiple
Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio
Recordings, Band of Gypsys). An autobiographical journey told in the legendary musician’s own
words as read by Parliament-Funkadelic’s Bootsy Collins, the film incorporates interviews with
Hendrix, coupled with the artist’s letters, writings and recordings to provide new insight into one
of the most enduring icons of popular culture. The documentary features some of Jimi’s greatest
performances as well as rare and never before seen footage and photos including–for the first
time ever–examples from the Hendrix family archive of the late guitarist?s personal drawings,
postcards home to his father, song drafts, sketches, and lyrics.
“Who better to tell the incredible story of a man’s life than the man himself? Jimi was amazing
and only his music, with tones and textures that he conjured, can capture the colorful and
expansive essence of his time here on earth. I am enthralled with this all-encompassing new
anthology which not only illuminates his years on both sides of the Atlantic and beautifully
reveals his versatility as a performer, from his R&B origins to his explosion on the pop culture
scene, but highlights who he was for those who knew and loved him,” said Janie Hendrix,
President and CEO of Experience Hendrix and co-producer of West Coast Seattle Boy - The
Jimi Hendrix Anthology. “This vast exploration of my brother’s musical and life
experiences leaves no stone unturned and is sure to broaden our understanding of who Jimi really
was, not only as a legendary musician, but also as a timeless messenger of love.”
“Jimi Hendrix changed the world with his music and West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi
Hendrix Anthology honors that achievement with an unprecedented collection of rarities and
never-before-heard tracks from the Hendrix vaults that show the breadth and depth of this
extraordinary artist,” said Adam Block, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Legacy
Recordings. “West Coast Seattle Boy - The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is a comprehensive
overview of Hendrix’s career told through fresh materials and provides remarkable new insights
into one of music’s greatest geniuses.”
An essential and historic addition to the Jimi Hendrix catalog, West Coast Seattle Boy - The
Jimi Hendrix Anthology brings together, for the first time, many of Hendrix’s earliest
commercial recordings, providing a rare glimpse of the rising rock guitar hero through a series of
stellar sideman performances on a set of highly collectible pre-Experience R&B singles
