"Band of Gypsys" Gets New Life

The last album approved by the late Jimi Hendrix before his death in 1970, Band of Gypsys, will be heading back into the studio for a digital face-lift. The album will be re-released on Jan 13 on a Hendrix family sanctioned CD edition for the first time. The project will give legendary Hendrix engineer,>Eddie Kramer, his first crack at remastering the tracks from the original two-track mixdown master tapes for compact disc.

The new album will feature the original album artwork plus a new 24-page booklet with liner notes and rare photographs.

"I think Jimi would be really excited about this release, because "Band of Gypsys" shows a little more of his blues and R&B side," says Janie Hendrix-Wright, Jimi's sister and President/CEO of Experience Hendrix. "It reveals another side of his music, a different facet of his creativity."

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Song Stories

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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