ELECTRIC LADYLAND: DELUXE EDITION

of the key line that appears within the credits of the original October 1968 double-vinyl release of tells quite the prescient tale: “Produced And Directed By Jimi Hendrix.” The most crucial word in that phraseology, of course, is , as the ace guitar slinger spent a good bit of his in-studio time in 1968 thinking in purely cinematic terms. Though his indisputable fretboard prowess was universally acknowledged by that point in his all-too-short career—something forever overshadowing his other, underrated top-shelf talents as a soulful, thoughtful, versatile vocalist