Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (1967)

Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, it was the first LP for Track Records. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's R&B-based, psychedelic, distortion- and feedback-laden electric guitar playing, and launched him as a major new international star. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #15 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was an instant success and was the best-selling album in the United States in 1968.

In 2005 Are You Experienced was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in the United States.

Tracklist :

01. Foxy Lady

02. Manic Depression

03. Red House

04. Can You See Me

05. Love or Confusion

06. I Don't Live Today

07. May This Be Love

08. Fire

09. Third Stone From the Sun

10. Remember

11. Are You Experienced?

12. Hey Joe

13. Stone Free

14. Purple Haze

15. 51st Anniversary

16. The Wind Cries Mary

17. Highway Chile

Jimi Hendrix – lead vocals, guitar, backing vocals on track 1, handclaps on track 6, voice of "Star Fleet" on track 9, piano on track 11

• Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 8 and 14
• Mitch Mitchell – drums, tambourine on tracks 4, 7, 10 and 13, backing vocals on track 6, cowbell on track 13