Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (Thirty Three and a Third series)
A new entry in a series about famous LPs. Perry callsElectric Ladylandthe record in which Hendrix "reached his full artistic maturity." It was also the last album he made with manager Chas Chandler and the bassist and drummer who with him had constituted the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Ready to venture beyond the parameters Chandler's "manageable vision" set, "for the first time [Hendrix] could allow order to grow out of chaos"--and lead him into "a sea of excess." Perry recalls the era and how Hendrix fit into it, illuminating such underexamined phenomena as the contention that he was a "psychedelic Uncle Tom." Nice appreciation of an apparently timeless musician and album.Mike TribbyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved