People, Hell and Angels is a posthumous studio album by the American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. The fourth release under the Experience Hendrix deal with Legacy Recordings, it contains twelve previously unreleased recordings of tracks he was working on for the planned follow-up to Electric Ladyland. It was released on March 5th, 2013.
Had everything gone smoothly, what’s here might have ended up on the follow-up to ‘Electric Ladyland’, tentatively titled ‘First Rays Of The New Rising Sun’. It never happened, of course, but this collection has a tantalising flavour, the sense of an alternative history of rock. Various musicians drop in and out of the electric blues workouts, including Jimi Hendrix Experience bandmate Mitch Mitchell, old army buddy Billy Cox, drummer Buddy Miles, saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood, and Stephen Stills, who plays bass on ‘Somewhere’. This is the track, full of Jimi’s explosive wah-wah guitar, that first puts ‘People, Hell & Angels’ in a different league to many of the other Hendrix cash-ins filling up the bargain bins.