Red House (cover), Jimi Hendrix, my own interpretation...

Here is a cover of Red House, in fact the only 12 bar blues which Jimi ever wrote. It's an absolute favourite of mine, and I hope you enjoy my interpretation of it. Gear used was my standard USA strat, d'Addario .010s, and just a little overdrive from the amp + my Ibanez TS-808 Overdrive Pro "Tube Screamer".

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[tomjunowak]

This is not the only 12 Bar Blues that Jimi wrote. He's wrote many.

[killerbug5]

Er, no he didn't. Name them...?!

[tomjunowak]

Well, many is an exageration, but he has wrote others such as Jelly 292 aka Jam 292.

[killerbug5]

Sure, it's a 12 bar blues jam, but he made those up all the time just like we all do (just listen to all the dagger records studio session CDs to find a few examples). 292 was never released on any album by him either, and certainly has no words. Red House is, if you think about it, the only real 12 bar, with lyrics, that he released and ever played live. I wouldn't have written that if I didn't know it was true!

[MrDalerox]

Try buying jimi hendrix blues cd. He wrote at least 7 of the tracks on this album alone. Try reading dude!

[killerbug5]

Er, but the only track 12 bar ever released on an album in his lifetime and written by Hendrix himself, with lyrics, (+ which was played live by him) was Red House. This appears in 2 different versions on the Blues CD, which is just a mix of some old blues recordings made by JH over his recording career. Though a few of the tracks on there are 12 bar's, they're just jams, and were never designed for release. I say what I do about Red House because it is the words of one of JH's biographers!

[Hendrix92TheUniverse]

Very professional, I thoroughly enjoyed the sound, and you play quite well. Actually, your style may be a bit more polished than Hendrix, for he seemed to have a more raw sound.

[landwell06]

I like Fender sound. Great job.

[pikepole63]

Hey bra! Nice rendition! You have the blues feel! Check out 'Green House'! I think you'll dig it! Muddy Guy!

[pikepole63]

@gtr362

Hey, Check out the green side of the tume! Muddy Guy!

[MrDalerox]

My bad - HENDRIX

[MrDalerox]

I agree. Redhouse was a commercial release. But a song doesnt have to have lyrics to be a release. I bought about 7 cassettes (yes cassettes) of material released by his family years ago and there are some pretty fine blues tunes on them. Anyway im not gonna argue with you, Jimi wrote heaps of blues tunes and this is the topic im replying to not commercial releases. BTW redhouse recording with janis joplin and jim morrison on youtube is handrix blues at his best IMHO.

[gtr362]

Nice dude!! Check out my version, I'm using a Wah all the way through, thought it would throw a little different touch on it.