Experience Hendrix Tour

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A five city tour, featuring some of the best known and most respected figures in rock, blues has been set to celebrate the legacy and music of Jimi Hendrix next month. The tour launches October 16 at Washington’s Constitution Hall. Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company charged entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix is the presenter of the tour and lends its name to the endeavor which runs through October 20th. Other tour stops include New York; Hampton Beach, NH; Atlantic City and Waterbury, CT.

Featuring artists who will be performing music written by and associated with Jimi Hendrix include blues giant Buddy Guy, pedal steel innovator Robert Randolph, contemporary guitar greats Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Special guests include Robbie Krieger, guitarist of the Doors, Rolling Stones veteran guitarist Mick Taylor and Hubert Sumlin, the Mississippi-born guitarist who worked with both Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. Most remarkably, Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Billy Cox (bass), the same Jimi Hendrix Experience rhythm section that played behind Hendrix at Woodstock will be on hand for the Experience Hendrix tour dates as will Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, a/k/a Double Trouble, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan’s highly regarded rhythm section. Native American band Indigenous, Eric Gales, the Memphis guitarist who is heard on the Power of Soul Jimi Hendrix tribute album and Kenny Olson of Kid Rock’s band are also part of the Experience Hendrix Tour. Various combinations of these artists in performance are sure to make the concerts very special events for both new and veteran Hendrix fans.

The new Experience Hendrix tour is an exciting prospect for Billy Cox whose history with Jimi Hendrix dates back to their days in the Army together. He commented, “It’s a thrill for me to play Jimi’s music for audiences now as it was in the early 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tour just show you how timeless this music really is.”


Tour dates:

October 16 Washington, DC, Constitution Hall
October 17 New York, New York, Beacon Theater
October 18 Hampton Beach, NH, Casino Ballroom
October 19 Atlantic City, New Jersey, Etess Arena, Trump Taj Mahal
October 20 Waterbury, CT, Palace Theater


Courtesy of Experience Hendrix, LLC

Update

Hey there. Thanks for checking out the blog, whether it's your first time or if you're one the faithful who keep coming back despite my lack of updates. I still have a lot of ideas for this blog and plan to share more music and information in the coming months, and hopefully post more often.

For now, I've updated the Current Listening section with some of the music I discovered on a recent trip to New Orleans. It also has a link to Amir Sulaiman's website, an artist I previously mentioned on this blog. If you've still never heard him, do yourself a favor and go to his website, click on music, and listen to the first track, "Like a Thief." For more tracks and videos check out his myspace page.

Good stuff on the horizon...