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“Stone Free” by Jimi Hendrix

Released 1970

“Stone Free” by Jimi Hendrix appears on 19 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1970. Its best result is #60 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,309 classic rock song of all time.

19countdowns

7stations

#60best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1990–2026years charted

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"Stone Free" was only the second song the Jimi Hendrix Experience ever put on tape, and it went out on the flip side of "Hey Joe", the band's first UK single, in December 1966. Hendrix wrote it as a hymn to living loose and unattached, a portrait of his own restless life, and Chas Chandler produced. Mitch Mitchell drives it hard from the drum stool while Noel Redding's bass fills in the harmony underneath.

It had a long second act. The song later turned up on the Smash Hits compilation, and after a reworked version Hendrix cut in April 1969 went unused, Reprise put the original out as an American single that September. On stage he treated it as a launch pad, sometimes stretching it past fourteen minutes.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Classic Rock

#1,309 of all time

Hard Rock & Metal

#321 of all time

All Rock Formats

#2,342 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1990	532	Z-Rock	Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990)	1000
1994	60	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)	1000
1995	546	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)	1000
1996	233	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)	1000
1996	230	WNEW-FM	WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996)	500
1998	430	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)	1000
1999	793	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)	998
2002	274	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2011	756	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011)	1100
2012	781	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012)	1200
2013	400	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013)	1000
2014	384	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Firecracker 400 (2014)	400
2014	571	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014)	1000
2015	439	102.9 The Whale	102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015)	500
2015	411	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015)	499
2015	400	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015)	1007
2016	979	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016	1007
2019	1012	102.5 KZOK	KZOK Top 1025 of 2019	1025
2026	415	KSHE 95	KSHE 95 U-Man 500 (2026)	499

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