John Harchar

Keep On Grooving

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Looking at the recorded legacy of Jimi Hendrix over the past 5 decades

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John Harchar

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Episode 10-The Experience Hendrix Era 2000-2001 (and 2003) Retrospectives (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Voodoo Child and Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues) 04.02.2022 22:01

Listeners finally get the long awaited career spanning box set, but they also get another new best of and a segment on a PBS special done by one of America's most famous directors.

Episode 9-The Experience Hendrix Era 1997-1999 (First Rays of the New Rising Sun, South Saturn Delta, BBC Sessions, Live at the Fillmore East and Live at Woodstock) 22.01.2022 35:20

Jimi's family takes control of his back catalog and begins to try to sort out his legacy by putting old pieces back in place, adding some new ones and attempting to correct the flaws of some of the previous posthumous albums, with mixed results.

Episode 8-The Alan Douglas Era 1993-1995-Workin' For MCA (:blues, Woodstock and Voodoo Soup) 07.01.2022 30:01

Jimi's catalog moves labels from Reprise to MCA with promises to build the catalog back better than ever.  But after a promising start with a blues collection and a Woodstock album, the project comes to a crashing halt in some voodoo soup.

The Keep On Grooving Holiday Special 24.12.2021 8:58

A quick rundown of the holiday themed songs and concerts Jimi performed in his career both before the Experience all the way through to the Band of Gypsys.  Merry Christmas!

Episode 7-The Alan Douglas Era 1988-1991 Boxed In (Lifelines, Stages. Sessions and Footlights) 16.12.2021 25:04

The late 80s led to a plethora of box sets and ressiues to fill up the CD shevles.  What did Jimi's labels do to fulfill the audience's desire for new and unreleased material?

Episode 6: The Alan Douglas Era 1986-1988 (Jimi Plays Monterey, Johnny B. Goode, Band of Gypsys 2, Live At Winterland and Radio One) 27.11.2021 30:09

The mid 80s brought forward a new batch of Hendrix releases.  Some long awaited like the full set at Monterey and others like...interpretive dance!  What?  It took an upstart CD label to get the Hendrix legacy back pointed in the right direction.

Episode 5-The Alan Douglas Era 1980-1984 (Nine To The Universe, The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, The Singles Album & Kiss the Sky) 13.11.2021 20:35

As a new decade begins, Jimi releases a jazz album, a double live album and a new greatest hits collection for a new medium: the compact disc.

Episode 4-The Alan Douglas Era 1975-1979 (Crash Landing, Midnight Lightning and The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volumes 1 & 2) 31.10.2021 28:08

Alan Douglas, an old friend of Hendrix, comes into to manage the pile of material the guitarist left behind and ends up doing so for the next two decades.

Episode 3-The Mike Jeffrey era, 1972-1974 The End...of the Beginning (War Hereos, Soundtrack to a Film About Jimi Hendrix & Loose Ends) 21.10.2021 35:12

The Mike Jeffrey era comes to a close and it looked like Jimi Hendrix's posthumous career would come to an end as well.

Episode 2-The Mike Jeffrey era, 1970-1972 Live (Band of Gypsys, Isle of Wight, Hendrix In The West and others) 03.10.2021 29:25

Jimi Hendrix's legacy rests on his stellar live performances as well as his ground breaking studio work.  This episode look at some of the early live releases, both in the last year of his life and soon after his passing and how these performances cemented his reputation and set the standard (both high and low) for releases to come.

Episode 1-The Mike Jeffery Era 1971 (Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge) 19.09.2021 34:13

The passing of Jimi Hendrix in 1970 led to an unprecedented string of posthumous album releases that continues to this day.  The first episode of Keep On Grooving looks at the first two LPs after his death, Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge and how they set the stage for future albums down the line.