Originally released the 5th of March 1971, and last issued on CD in 1992, The Cry Of Love was compiled and mixed by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell.
The bulk of these tracks were recorded between December 1969 and the summer of 1970 at Electric Lady Studios in New York, and were intended to be part of an ambitious double LP tentatively titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
Commercially, The Cry Of Love was a huge success, reaching #3 in the U.S. and #2 in the UK, and spawned favorites such as “Angel,” “Freedom,” and “Ezy Ryder.” While Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox comprised the rhythm section on the lion’s share of the tracks, Buddy Miles played drums on “Ezy Ryder” and Noel Redding played bass on “My Friend” (recorded in 1968, before his departure from the Jimi Hendrix Experience). The Cry Of Love also includes the participation of notable guest musicians including Steve Winwood, Chris Wood and Buzzy Linhart among others.
Unlike many of the LPs that have surfaced since Hendrix's death, The Cry of Love doesn't try to replicate a work in progress or thematically pull together a series of tracks that were either abandoned or left unfinished by the fidgety artist. The 10 tracks were collected from almost two and a half years of studio sessions, spanning March 1968, when he started work on his final album with the Experience, Electric Ladyland, through just a month before his death.
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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
Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis were making plans to record together the year before Hendrix’s death in 1970, but it turns out they were hoping that Paul McCartney would join them on bass.
Davis and Hendrix sent McCartney an impromptu October 21st, 1969 telegram request to record with them in New York:
