Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts

Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
Box set live album by
Jimi Hendrix
ReleasedNovember 22, 2019 (2019-11-22)
RecordedDecember 31, 1969 – January 1, 1970
VenueFillmore East, New York City
Genre
Length324:30[1]
LabelExperience Hendrix/Legacy
Producer
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Both Sides of the Sky
(2018) 		Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
(2019) 		Live in Maui
(2020)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[2]
AllMusic[1]
The Arts Desk[3]
Seattlepifavorable[4]
Uncut[5]

Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts is a chronologically sequenced collection of American musician Jimi Hendrix's 1969–1970 New Years recorded performances at the Fillmore East in New York City.[6] It was released as a box set of five-CDs on November 22, 2019 and an eight-LP set on December 13.[7]

With over five hours of recorded music, the box set contains 43 songs, which Experience Hendrix (the current managers of Hendrix's recording legacy) note "assembles all four concerts from New Year’s Eve 1969 and New Year’s Day 1970".[8] Several previously unreleased recordings are included, along with longer versions of some already issued. However, at least five songs were left off and at least one other was edited for the box set.[1][9][10][11]

  1. ^ a b c Westergaard, Sean. "Jimi Hendrix: Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
  2. ^ Jazz, All About. "Jimi Hendrix: Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz.
  3. ^ "Is this Jimi Hendrix's greatest posthumous release? Producer Eddie Kramer talks about a legendary live album". theartsdesk.com.
  4. ^ "Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix - 'Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts' Plus Rebecca Turner, Modern English". seattlepi.com. December 19, 2019.
  5. ^ "Jimi Hendrix – Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts | UNCUT".
  6. ^ Lewry, Fraser (October 1, 2019). "Complete Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Shows Get Songs for Groovy Children Release". loudersound.com. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  7. ^ Experience Hendrix. "Expansive CD & LP Box Sets Present All Four Historic Hendrix Band of Gypsys Performances at the Fillmore East Newly Mixed by Eddie Kramer". Jimihendrix.com (official website). Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  8. ^ Experience Hendrix. "Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts". Jimihendrix.com (official website). Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  9. ^ Brown 1992, p. 211.
  10. ^ McDermott, Kramer & Cox 2009, p. 189.
  11. ^ Shadwick 2003, p. 211.