Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2023 March 31 • Friday

We'll add just about any Jimi Hendrix recording to the Gutbrain archives. Any original recording, that is. If Kenny G does another Duets record and drags poor Jimi into it, we would stay far away from that or anything like it.

But way back when, in real life, Dusty Springfield and Jimi Hendrix performed a duet and we love Dusty around here. So it was one of our easiest decisions ever to plunk down a few dollars for this 45 of The Jimi Hendrix Experience with Dusty Springfield.

So what is it? Honestly, not much. Dusty introduces the band and you get a good rendition of "Stone Free", with good but not great sound quality.

The duet part is on the B side and is just Jimi and Dusty, no rhythm section. Hendrix plays guitar and they both sing the song "Mockingbird", for about a minute. Again the sound quality is only okay.

It would have been absolutely amazing if they could have gone into a studio and done a real collaboration but this was just kind of a spur of the moment type thing on a TV appearance.

"Mockingbird" is very short but the rest of the B side is taken up with an exellent "Voodoo Chile", with really good sound quality. Somehow the levels and mix are just right for that song.

So it's a curiosity and "for completists only", as they say. And we are completists.