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'Black Gold': New Hendrix in Old Tapes

Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

NEW YORK — The archaeological probing of the Hendrix tapes continues. Up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at the Shaggy Dog Studios, Alan Douglas — producer, record label owner (Douglas Records) and chief archaeologist — sifts through 100 tapes of the music put down in studios, live concerts and festivals by Jimi Hendrix: the jams, polished performances, false starts, backing tracks.

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