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.[2] 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).
Critical reception
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".[3] Paul Evans gave it three-and-a-half stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992).[4]
Track listing
All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.