The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (2LP)
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968. The double album was the only record from the band produced by Jimi Hendrix. Electric Ladyland was the Experience’s most commercially successful release and their only number one album.
Electric Ladyland included a cover of the Bob Dylan song, “All Along The Watchtower,” which became the Experience’s highest-selling single and their only top 40 hit in the US, peaking at number 20: the single reached number five in the UK.
Although is confounded critics upon its release, Electric Ladyland has since been viewed as Hendrix’s best work and one of the greatest rock albums of all time. It has been featured on many greatest album lists, including the list of the 100 Greatest Albums and Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, on which it was ranked 54th