Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Hendrix recorded it on 3 May 1968 at the Record Plant in New York with Redding and Mitchell, the day after the longer Voodoo Chile jam with Winwood and Casady. A crew was filming a possible ABC documentary, and Hendrix used the occasion to teach his bandmates a new song. Redding said they learned it in the studio with the cameras rolling. The footage was never used.

After his death it was released as a UK single and reached number one in the week of 15 November 1970. On 1 January 1970 at the Fillmore East he introduced it as the national anthem of the Black Panthers. In concert it ran from seven to eighteen minutes, and he played it for the last time on 6 September 1970 at Fehmarn. Joe Satriani called it the greatest piece of electric guitar work ever recorded. Stevie Ray Vaughan covered it on Couldn't Stand the Weather in 1984.