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Eddie Kramer Completes Posthumous Jimi Hendrix Trilogy With 'Both Sides Of The Sky'

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer brings continuity and freshness to Hendrix's posthumous canon with a new album.
Jimi Hendrix performs at the Hollywood Bowl in Sept. 1968.

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer still remembers the first time he heard Jimi Hendrix play. It was 1967 and he was assigned to work with a young guitarist that everyone in London was talking about.

"Jimi got up and plugged into the Marshall

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