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Johnny B. Goode (album)

Johnny B. Goode: An Original Video Soundtrack
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Live album by Jimi Hendrix
Released June 1986 (1986-06)
Recorded
  • May 30, 1970
  • July 4, 1970
Venue
Genre Rock
Length 26:08
Label
Producer
Hendrix US albums chronology
Jimi Plays Monterey
(1986)
Johnny B. Goode: An Original Video Soundtrack
(1986)
Band of Gypsys 2
(1986)
Hendrix UK albums chronology
The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
(1982)
Johnny B. Goode
(1986)
Radio One
(1988)

Johnny B. Goode is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in June 1986. It contains three songs from Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 4, 1970, and two songs from Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970.

Marketed as a "mini LP" soundtrack, it was released at the same time as a video album with the same title, but with more performances from Atlanta Pop. More complete performances from both concerts were released on Live at Berkeley (2003) and Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival (2015) (see Jimi Hendrix videography for more information about video releases).

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Johnny B. Goode an "A–" and called it "vivid testimony to the uses of digital mastering for archival music", finding the sound particularly "powerful" on side one. He highlighted the "intense" rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" and "Johnny B. Goode", writing that Hendrix's performance of the latter song is "the definitive version of the definitive guitar anthem". Paul Evans gave it three-and-a-half stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992).


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