Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Many listeners discovered the album after hearing Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” which became the group’s best-selling single. “Still Raining, Still Dreaming” demonstrated Hendrix’s mastery of the wah-wah pedal and his ability to make the guitar “talk.” He was playing a kind of lazy funk with the guitar, almost sounding like a human voice. It was psychedelic like “Purple Haze,” but the sound was less compressed. The song sounded like part of a jam session instead of a neat song for radio consumption. The album’s loose structure, except for the Dylan cover, is the reason critics did not initially understand the music. Over time they started to see what Hendrix was doing and how he was innovating rock music again.

Electric Ladyland was the band’s sole number one album, and it grew in value, becoming one of the many important links to music of the future with sounds landing everywhere from P-Funk to rappers like Outkast, The Soulquarian collective, and D’Angelo. In 1997 the Hendrix estate released At Last… The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland, a documentary about the album. The film was reissued in 2008 with an additional forty minutes of footage. In 2025, the Axis Bold As Love Sessions was released on Blu Ray and the Seattle Seahawks dropped Hendrix-inspired merchandise. 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded “Fire” for their 1967 debut album, Are You Experienced? The story starts with Jimi Hendrix’s visit to bass player Noel Redding’s mother’s house. It was cold, and she had a fireplace, and Hendrix asked if he could stand next to it. Her dog, Rover, was blocking it, so he referenced that in the song. The assumption was always that the song was about sex, but Hendrix was literally singing about access to a live fireplace. Mitch Mitchell’s manic jazz drumming and Hendrix’s guitar, with its fuzzy effect, drive the song “Fire.” The song was another creative blast that made the album an innovative stride in rock music and helped deliver the band to stardom. Rock music and the way the guitar was perceived and played were reinvented by Hendrix through his blues, funk, jazz, and R&B influences and virtuosic guitar playing. They had reached new creative heights, and the album also sold a million copies within seven months of its release  The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper, and Ghanaian rock band Osibisa have covered “Fire.” Rick Ross, Aladdin, Lupe Fiasco, The D.O.C., Charles Hamilton, and Chumbawamba have all sampled “Fire.” The National Recording Registry added Are You Experienced? to its list in 2005, and it continues to top critic lists.

Jimi Hendrix’s “Ezy Ryder” was included on his first posthumous album The Cry Of Love. It was one of the songs Hendrix was working on when he died in 1970. He started working on “Ezy Ryder” in 1969 at Olympic Studios in London. He debuted the song with his Band Of Gypsys which included drummer Buddy Miles and bass player Billy Cox at the Fillmore East on New Year’s Eve in 1969. The studio recording of “Ezy Ryder” was one of the few times Hendrix was recorded with Cox and Miles. The funk soared with the pyrotechnics of Hendrix’s notes which exhibited his ability to play bass, lead, and rhythm at the same time.  The Cry Of Love was accepted as a legitimate album by critics and fans and reached Gold status within a month of its March 1971 release.  “Ezy Ryder” also appears on the Voodoo Soup compilation which was Alan Douglas’ attempt to construct Hendrix’s planned fourth album and First Rays Of The New Rising Sun. Zayn Malik covered “Angel” in 2022 to honor what would have been Jimi Hendrix’s 80th birthday. 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded “Hey Joe” for their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced? Arthur Lee of Love claims that it was his band’s version that introduced Hendrix to the composition. Chas Chandler who discovered Hendrix and managed his group wanted them to record “Hey Joe” because of their previous live performances of it. The JHE cover was the first single released in the U.K. in December of 1966. Hendrix owned “Hey Joe” with his intense vocals and a guitar solo that merged the worlds of blues and rock. He brought genius to the song in the studio and even more flamboyantly when he performed it at The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The playing done on “Hey Joe” contributed to Are You Experienced? being one of the most important rock debuts ever. Hendrix’s virtuosic mastery over the guitar and embrace of sound effects created new possibilities for music. The music and set the blueprint for guitarists and artists, in general, to follow in the future. The album topped US and U.K. charts for more than 100 weeks and dazzled critics. In 2005, AYE was added to the National Recording Registry. 

Jimi Hendrix’s discography has grown posthumously since his passing in 1970. Experience Hendrix helmed by family members has controlled Hendrix’s catalog since 1997. In 2020, The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live In Maui documentary was released with the accompanying album.