“Highway Chile” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Jimi Hendrix stashed "Highway Chile" on the B-side of "The Wind Cries Mary", the Experience's third British single, in 1967, and it now rides along on the 1993 edition of Are You Experienced. The title is just Hendrix saying "child" his way, with the d dropped, a spelling he'd reuse for "Voodoo Chile".

It's a road song, and the road is his own: a musician grinding through the R&B and soul Chitlin' Circuit, chasing the American Dream while he works out a style all his own. The groove is a funky, mid-tempo shuffle over a blues pattern, with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums, Chas Chandler producing and Eddie Kramer engineering. The single was mixed in mono; a true stereo version finally surfaced on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set in 2000.

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