Are You Experienced? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

Top Tracks: “Purple Haze”, “Foxey Lady”, “Are You Experienced?”

The importance this album had on me as a young guitar player cannot be overstated. I owned it on vinyl in middle school, and once the purple haze got in my brain, I never looked back, and explored this man’s short but incredibly influential musical career in high detail. There’s almost no hard rock guitar playing involving a deep level of expression that doesn’t owe its roots to Jimi, and this was the album that put him on the map (May 2020).