Jimi Hendrix New Record ‘People, Hell & Angels’ Due Out March 2013

Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music
Entertainment, proudly announce the release of 'People, Hell & Angels,' an essential new
album premiering twelve previously unreleased studio recordings completed by guitarist
Jimi Hendrix.

People, Hell & Angels showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original
Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager
to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside the view of a
massive audience that had established the Experience as rock's largest grossing concert
act and simultaneously placed two of his albums in the US Top 10 sales chart, Jimi was
busy working behind the scenes to craft his next musical statement.

These twelve recordings encompass a variety of unique sounds and styles incorporating
many of the elements—horns, keyboards, percussion and second guitar—Jimi wanted
to incorporate within his new music. People, Hell & Angels presents some of the finest
Jimi Hendrix guitar work ever issued and provides a compelling window into his growth
as a songwriter, musician and producer.

People, Hell & Angels will be available Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

With an album title coined by Jimi Hendrix, People, Hell & Angels reveals some of
Hendrix's post-Experience ambitions and directions as he worked with new musicians-
-including the Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills, drummer Buddy Miles, Billy Cox
(with whom Hendrix had served in the 101st US Army Airborne and later played on the
famed R & B 'chitlin circuit' together) and others--creating fresh and exciting sounds for
the next chapter in his extraordinary career.

People, Hell & Angels is co-produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John
McDermott. Kramer first met Hendrix at Olympic Studios in London in January 1967.
Hendrix, who would have turned 70 on November 27 this year, developed a unique
rapport with Kramer. As a result, Kramer engineered every album issued by the guitarist
in his lifetime and recorded such famous Hendrix concerts as the Woodstock festival in
August 1969. Since 1997, Kramer has teamed with Janie Hendrix and John McDermott
to oversee the release of each Jimi Hendrix album issued by Experience Hendrix.

The dozen previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix performances premiering on People, Hell
& Angels include "Earth Blues," "Somewhere," "Hear My Train A Comin'," "Bleeding
Heart," "Baby Let Me Move You," "Izabella," "Easy Blues," "Crash Landing," "Inside
Out," "Hey Gypsy Boy," "Mojo Man" and "Villanova Junction Blues."

A musical companion piece and successor to 2010's Valleys Of Neptune, the critically
acclaimed album showcasing the artist's final recordings with the original Jimi Hendrix
Experience, People, Hell & Angels offers tantalizing new clues as to the direction
Hendrix was considering for First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, his planned double
album sequel to 1968's groundbreaking Electric Ladyland.

Unlike contemporaries such as the Beatles or Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix owned his songs
and master recordings. He did not have to record his music at recording studios owned
and operated by his record company. Hendrix spent countless hours recording his new
music at new, independent music studios such as New York's Record Plant and the Hit
Factory. Hendrix was so focused on recording his music that, concurrent with nearly
all of the sessions featured as part of People, Hell & Angels, he was underwriting the
construction of his own recording facility--the state of the art Electric Lady Studios in
Greenwich Village.

Janie L. Hendrix, President/CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, commented, "We're
thrilled to be able to release People, Hell & Angels during the celebration of the 70th
anniversary of my brother's birth. The brilliance of the album serves to underscore what
we've known all along: that there has never been and never will be a musical force equal
to his and that we cherish and take inspiration of what he left us both now and for many
generations to come...simply eternity."

"People, Hell & Angels provides us with further insight into the genius of Jimi Hendrix,"
said Adam Block, President, Legacy Recordings. "Working with new rhythm sections
and instrumentation, Jimi Hendrix was opening up the horizons of his music, creating
new sounds filled with endless possibilities."

'People, Hell & Angels' - Track by Track

Earth Blues:
Totally unlike the version first issued as part of Rainbow Bridge in 1971, this December
19, 1969 master take features just Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles--stripped down
funk at its very origin.

Somewhere:
This newly discovered gem was recorded in March 1968 and features Buddy Miles on
drums and Stephen Stills on bass. Entirely different from any previous version fans
have ever heard.

Hear My Train A Comin':
This superb recording was drawn from Jimi's first ever recording session with Billy Cox
and Buddy Miles--the powerhouse rhythm section with whom he would later record the
groundbreaking album Band Of Gypsys.

Jimi shared a deep love for the blues with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Both musicians
understood Jimi's desire to create what he described as a 'new type of blues'. Jimi's
menacing lead guitar is the centerpiece of this dramatic addition to his remarkable legacy.

Bleeding Heart:
This Elmore James masterwork had long been a favorite of Jimi's. He had performed
the song earlier that year with the Experience in concert at the Royal Albert Hall and
had attempted to capture the song in New York studio sessions during the weeks that
followed.

Recorded at the same May 1969 session as "Hear My Train A Coming," the track
conveys Jimi's firm understanding of the arrangement and tempo he desired. Before
they began, Jimi instructed Cox and Miles that he wanted to establish a totally different
beat than the standard arrangement. He then kicked off this amazing rendition that was
nothing like any other he had ever attempted.

Let Me Move You:
In March 1969, Jimi reached back to another old friend, saxophonist Lonnie
Youngblood. Before he was discovered by Chas Chandler in the summer of 1966,
Jimi had contributed guitar as a nondescript studio sideman for Youngblood and such
infectious rhythm and blues styled singles such as "Soul Food".

This March 1969 session features Hendrix and Youngblood trading licks throughout this
never before heard, high velocity rock and soul classic.

Izabella:
In the aftermath of the Woodstock festival, Jimi gathered his new ensemble, Gypsy Sun
& Rainbows, at the Hit Factory in August 1969 with engineer Eddie Kramer. "Izabella"
had been one of the new songs the guitarist introduced at the Woodstock festival and Jimi
was eager to perfect a studio version. This new version is markedly different from the
Band Of Gypsys 45 rpm single master issued by Reprise Records in 1970 and features
Larry Lee, Jimi's old friend from the famed rhythm & blues 'chitin' circuit', on rhythm
guitar.

Easy Blues:
An edited extract of this gorgeous, free flowing instrumental was briefly issued as part
of the long-out-of-print 1981 album Nine To The Universe. Now nearly twice as long,
the track offers fans the opporutnity to enjoy the dramatic interplay between Jimi, second
guitarist Larry Lee, Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

Crash Landing:

Perhaps known as the title song for the controversial 1975 album that featured Hendrix
master recordings posthumously overdubbed by session musicians, this April 1969
original recording has never been heard before. Jimi is joined here by Billy Cox and
drummer Rocky Isaac of the Cherry People to record this thinly veiled warning to his
girlfriend Devon Wilson.

Inside Out:
Jimi was fascinated by the rhythm pattern that would ultimately take form as "Ezy
Ryder". Joined here by Mitch Mitchell, Jimi recorded all of the bass and guitar parts for
this fascinating song--including a dramatic lead guitar part amplified through a Leslie
organ speaker.

Hey Gypsy Boy:
The roots of Jimi's majestic "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" trace themselves to this
March 1969 recording. Unlike the posthumously overdubbed version briefly issued as
part of Midnight Lightning in 1975, this is original recording that features Jimi joined by
Buddy Miles.

Mojo Man:
Jimi would lend a hand to Albert & Arthur Allen, the vocalists known as the Ghetto
Fighters, whom he had befriended in Harlem long before he achieved fame with the
Experience. When the two recorded this inspired, previously unreleased master at
the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama they took it back to Hendrix
at Electric Lady Studios. Jimi knew just what to do to elevate the recording beyond
contemporary R & B to the new hybrid of rock, rhythm and blues he was celebrated for.

Villanova Junction Blues:
Long before his famous performance of this song at Woodstock, Jimi recorded this
studio version with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles at the same May 1969 session which
yielded "Hear My Train A Comin'" and "Bleeding Heart" also featured on this album.
Never fully finished, the song stands as an example of the fertile ideas he hoped to
harness and bring to fruition.