Jimi Hendrix Music:

The Cry of Love Track Listing:
1. Freedom
2. Drifting
3. Ezy Ryder
4. Night Bird Flying
5. My Friend
6. Straight Ahead
7. Astro Man
8. Angel
9. In from the Storm
10. Belly Button Window

The Cry of Love Reviews:
Incredible!
2009-04-09 - Great CD from my all time favorite musician! Luckily someone gave this to me as free mp3's since I didn't know it was out of print.

PLEASE REISSUE!
2009-01-18 - This first posthumous release is excellent. I don't know if Hendrix planned to have these songs together, but a great job was done making it sound like a cohesive offering. One could be fooled into thinking the album was finished prior to his death. I know the songs were put out on 'New Rays Of The Rising Sun' but to me this is tighter. 'Freedom', 'Angel', 'Drifting' are all great. 'Straight Ahead' jams. Basically, it's all good. Get it if you can. You won't be sorry.

Best Hendrix Album Ever . . .
2007-10-24 - This is my all time favorite Hendrix album. It was released after he died, but it captures Jimi's music at the peak of his talent and creativity. The etherial image of Jimi on the CD cover really fits with the music. This album is a fitting tribute to the man who changed guitar playing forever.

Rock Solid
2007-06-13 - Though all of these songs appear (remastered at that) on First Rays of the New Rising Sun, I prefer this album and wish it was still in print. Rays (like the older out of print Voodoo Soup) is filled with great songs, but the sound is all over the place with different line-ups and studio work.

This album was almost completely made of up songs perfored by the Hendrix-Mitchell-Cox trio (with guest Steve Winwood on I believe, Ezy Rider) and as such this feels like a complete album. It sounds like the songs were meant to be a single album. Those compilations feel like compilations.

Though I've rarely heard any of these songs on the radio, nearly every one of them is great. In From the Storm, Freedom and Ezy Rider are three of his strongest most straight forward rockers. His best collection of straight ahead rocks songs since Experienced. Plus the great ballad Drifting and the amazing Angel. (Fiona Apple closed her shows in 97 with a gorgeous version of Angel. Very awesome)

You might not be familiar with the songs when you buy this, but you will wonder why you weren't more familiar with this. Though I'm sure this was compiled from various studio sessions, the end result sounds more like a signle tight band than even Band of Gypsys did.

A final note, I'm basing this review off of my old Reprise label CD of this album which has the song listing above and not the song listing mentioned by Kurt Leith in his review (Beginning, Izabella and Highway Chile are not on this). Also, other than the front and rear cover, I've never seen the artwork shown above. Did MCA rerelease this before Experience Hendrix deleted the title? Or is that the Track gatefold import?

Another underrated Hendrix album...
2006-12-21 - This album is worth purchasing just for "Angel", let alone other stellar tracks like "Drifting" and "My Friend".

"Angel" is simply the most beautiful song I've ever heard...