Miami Pop Festival (album)

Miami Pop Festival
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 5, 2013 (2013-11-05)
RecordedMay 18, 1968
VenueMiami Pop Festival, Hallandale, Florida
GenreRock
Length60:50
LabelSony/Legacy
ProducerJanie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott
Jimi Hendrix chronology
People, Hell and Angels
(2013)
Miami Pop Festival
(2013)
Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival
(2015)

Miami Pop Festival is a posthumous live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, documenting their May 18, 1968 performance at the Pop & Underground Festival in Hallandale, Florida. It features eight songs recorded during their evening performance, along with two extra songs.

The album was released on November 5, 2013, in conjunction with the Jimi Hendrix video documentary, Hear My Train A Comin'.[1] "Fire" and "Foxey Lady", recorded during the afternoon-show, were also released as a stereo 45 rpm single.[2] The album reached number 39 on the US Billboard 200 album chart[3] and number 120 on the Belgian (Walloon) chart.[4]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]

In a review for AllMusic, Mark Demming gave the album three and a half out of five stars and writes "the recording is clean and full of detail ... and the Experience sound quite good ... but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release."[5]

Track listing

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Hendrix wrote all of the songs, except where noted.[6]

  1. Introduction (no music) – 1:54
  2. Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) – 6:22
  3. Foxey Lady – 4:33
  4. Tax Free( Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson) – 8:20
  5. Fire – 2:47
  6. Hear My Train A Comin' – 7:58
  7. I Don't Live Today – 4:50
  8. Red House – 12:07
  9. Purple Haze – 4:19
  10. Fire (afternoon show) – 3:07
  11. Foxey Lady (afternoon show) – 4:56

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ "News: Jimi Hendrix 'Hear My Train A Comin Documentary & 'Miami Pop Festival' Album to Be Released November 5". JimiHendrix.com. September 9, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  2. ^ "Fire" / "Foxey Lady" – Miami Pop Festival (Single notes). Jimi Hendrix Experience. New York City: Legacy Recordings. 2013. 88883791727.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ "Jimi Hendrix Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  4. ^ "Recherche pour: Jimi Hendrix – Album". Ultratop (in French). Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Demming, Mark. "Miami Pop Festival – Album Review". AllMusic. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  6. ^ Santelli, Bob (2013). Miami Pop Festival (Album notes). Jimi Hendrix Experience. New York City: Legacy Recordings. p. 21. 8883769922.