“Burning Of The Midnight Lamp” by Jimi Hendrix

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" came out in August 1967 as the Jimi Hendrix Experience's fourth British single, and it catches the trio in a brooding, heavy-lidded mood. Hendrix wrote it, manager Chas Chandler produced it, and the R&B group the Sweet Inspirations sang the backing vocals, laying a soulful sheen over the gloom.

It did not come easily. The band first worked at it in May 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, cutting four demo takes of a bare-bones version amid the Axis: Bold as Love sessions, and the slow progress reportedly left Hendrix frustrated as he headed off on months of European dates. American fans first found it on the flip side of "All Along the Watchtower", and it also landed on both the British and American editions of Electric Ladyland.

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