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Crucial Vinyl: Axis: Bold as Love by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is Axis: Bold as Love by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Each week the Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped to make him who he is). He features three tracks from it and explains why it means so much to him. This week he picks Axis: Bold as Love, the second album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Released in the UK in December 1967, the album fused blues and psychedelia and showed Jimi maturing as a songwriter.

Hendrix took a break from recording the album in the UK to fly to the US to perform at the Monterey Festival. He stole the show and his career in his home country was launched in a most spectacular fashion.

Jimi Hendrix's music and striking image made a deep impression on Don, who was 11 at the time. He was living in Brixton, south London and had just started at a school where he was the only black kid.

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Music Played

  • 9 in Common

    Midnight Is The Hour

  • Asgier

    Was There Nothing

  • Beaty Heart

    Banana Bread

  • Haley

    Kill The Fun

  • J.J. Cale

    The Problem

    • To Tulsa & Back.
    • Blue Note.
    • 6.

  • Maddy Carty

    Come And Get It

  • Cash & David

    Pulse

  • Corbu

    We Are Sound / Charles Webster Club Mix

    • 3Beat.

  • Dan Croll Ft. Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    Hello My Baby

  • Eddie Miller & His Band

    Ghost Town

    • Slow Grind Fever, Vol. 1 & 2 Album.
    • Stag-O-Lee.

  • Dennis Edwards

    Don't Look Any Further

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

  • Georgia

    Digits

    • Come In.
    • Kaya Kaya Records.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    If 6 Was 9

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Castles Made Of Sand

    • Axis: Bold As Love.
    • Universal-Island Records Limited.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    One Rainy Wish

  • Joan As Police Woman

    Shame

  • Kalbata & Mix Monster

    Congo Beat The Drum Ft. Major Makerel

  • k.d. lang

    Summerfling

  • Bob Marley

    Sun Is Shining (Yes King Rmx)

  • Connan Mockasin

    I'm The Man, That Will Find You

  • Morrissey

    Istanbul

  • Mungo鈥檚 Hi Fi

    Bike Rider (feat. Pupajim)

    • Scotch Bonnet Records.

  • Music Doctors

    In The Summertime

  • Russian Red

    Jean Michael/ Delorean Rmx

  • Three Little Birds

    Hyperion Dub

  • Trudie Dawn Smith

    No Pop

  • Tvs / Miloh, Ras

    Stand Strong Dub

  • Vena Portae

    Summer Kills

  • Yarbrough & Peoples

    Don't Stop The Music

  • Zervas & Pepper

    These Blurred Lines

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Aug 2014 22:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music