Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story
compilation album by Jimi Hendrix
Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story is a posthumous box set by Jimi Hendrix. The four compact disc set was released by Reprise Records on November 27, 1990, and produced by Bruce Gary. The first three discs comprise Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show, a narrated radio presentation of Hendrix's career. The fourth, titled The L. A. Forum Concert, contains live recordings from the Jimi Hendrix Experience's performance at the Forum in Los Angeles on April 26, 1969. The complete Forum performance was released in 2022 as Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969.
Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Disc one
"Introduction"
"Testify" (Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Rudolph Isley)
Performed by The Isley Brothers; Hendrix on guitar
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Lloyd Price)
Performed by Little Richard; Hendrix had no involvement with this track
"I'm a Man" (Ellas McDaniel a.k.a. Bo Diddley)
Performed by Curtis Knight and the Squires; Hendrix on guitar and lead vocals
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan)
"Red House"
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
"Hoocie Koochie Man" (Willie Dixon)
"Purple Haze"
"The Wind Cries Mary"
"Foxey Lady"
Disc two
"Third Stone from the Sun"
"Rock Me Baby" (B.B. King)
"Look Over Yonder/Mister Bad Luck"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Bold as Love"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Wing"
"Drivin' South"
"The Things I Used to Do" (Eddie Jones a.k.a. Guitar Slim)
Jam with Johnny Winter, Stephen Stills, and Dallas Taylor
"All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
"Drifter's Escape" (Dylan)
"Cherokee Mist"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"1983...
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