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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Mca
Salesrank: 115669
Released: April 11, 1995 |
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| Used Price: $7.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Voodoo Soup Track Listing:
1. New Rising Sun
2. Belly Button Window
3. Stepping Stone
4. Freedom
5. Angel
6. Room Full of Mirrors
7. Midnight
8. Night Bird Flying
9. Drifting
10. Ezy Ryder
11. Pali Gap
12. Message to Love
13. Peace in Mississippi
14. In from the Storm
Voodoo Soup Reviews:
Out Of Print and Out Of This World! 
2007-08-09 - The original masters done before the estate took over. If you can still find it, buy it!
Captures the Imagination 
2007-06-24 - Posthumous speculation on what Hendrix was going to release next. A great collection of mature late Hendrix as he moved into a new period. Heavy guitar solos like Midnight, Pali Gap and Peace in Mississippi really beef up the vocal tracks. This album has been heavily criticized for tampering with the Hendrix vision, but the song selection is better structured than the official release New Rays. It also does justice to the tracks they just threw onto South Saturn Delta without any thought of album cohesion.
Desert Island Disc - if only every copy of this CD were on one 
2007-04-09 - If someone had previously seriously suggested to me that some day people might actually start to like this album in a sort of Hendrixian post-modernist way, I would either have thought they were playing some kind of practical joke or were friends of the Alan Douglas family. But the out-of-print label can make even the most awful releases seem somehow more attractive once the bargain bins have emptied and they are no longer available in large quantities, and I fear that is the case here. Buy this only if you have 'First Rays' from Experience Hendrix and want to appreciate just how easy it is to mess up the job of assembling Jimi's final studio album. The pre-Douglasized versions on 'First Rays' are THE versions - the mix, the sound, is far more like that of Jimi's own mixes. Voodoo Soup is a release by the artist Alan Douglas and his sessionmen using the tapes of Jimi Hendrix as his instrument, and is to be seen as a continuation of 'Crash Landing' and 'Midnight Lightning', another two dismal releases not worth tracking down for those interested. As a Hendrix record producer he allowed himself to tamper just too much with the artist's product, his live releases Woodstock and Isle of Wight suffering equally from this tendency. The only Douglas releases worth listening to are 'Nine to the Universe', although the full jams are now available on various Dagger releases, and of course 'Blues', which must be Douglas' career highlight. Let's all be grateful that finally as close to the intended album as possible came out with EH's 'First Rays'.
Better than you'd expect
2006-07-30 - I got this CD expecting, no, planning to hate it. I already have First Rays Of The Rising Sun, which is not only great, but released with the full cooperation of the Hendrix family. Voodoo Soup, on the other hand, was released as an Alan Douglas production--he's the guy who seemed hell bent on reinventing Jimi Hendrix into his own personal vision. In other words, not exactly neutral or even respectful of what Hendrix might have actually wanted or intended for this album.
So I was very pleasantly surprised to hear something that actually sounds comfortable next to Electric Ladyland. The overdubs and rerecorded sections are done with far more taste than such misbegotten albums like Midnight Lightning. Truth be told, owning both Voodoo Soup AND First Rays Of the Rising Sun is a good idea. Both sound appropriate, just different in approach. You might even like to play producer yourself and mix 'n' match--that's apparently what Jimi himself was doing according to the sources I've read. The point is, listen first then judge. Worth tracking down.
Sacrilege to the Hendrix Fan 
2005-07-21 - Probably Alan Douglas's biggest slap in the face to Hendrix fans, Voodoo Soup was supposed to be the outtakes album that got it right. However, added effects by Douglas and more overdubs by people some 25 years after the fact didn't do Hendrix (or his fans) any kind of justice. He brought the former drummer of the Knack in to overdub the drums on Room Full of Mirrors and Stepping Stone just because he worked for Douglas and could play the drums. Unforgivable. Somehow I don't think Jimi would have liked that. Why not bring in Mitch Mitchell? He's still alive! And, of course, he was actually Jimi's drummer.
Skip this one. Get First Rays instead.
