01 ARE YOU EXPERIENCED THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
(1967)
The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is many things. As modern blues star Samantha Fish says: “Are You Experienced is historically important, innovative, and such a creative album. He took us to places that I don’t think music had been [before].”
But if anything, she slightly understates it. Beginning with this album, Hendrix reinvented guitar. It’s easy to miss the extent of his genius because many of his innovations are now taken-for-granted guitar techniques, but guitar playing pre-Hendrix was a markedly less interesting world. And no one could sound like him.
We don’t just mean this in the boring sense that every player is unique. Literally no one could sound like Jimi, because Hendrix’s
