# The Best Jimi Hendrix Experience Guitar Solos

> The 16 best Jimi Hendrix Experience guitar solos, ranked. #1 is All Along the Watchtower (1968), then Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and Little Wing.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience changed the electric guitar in just three studio albums, with Hendrix turning feedback, wah, fuzz and the whammy bar into a new musical language. Its solos, from Little Wing to Voodoo Child (Slight Return), still top nearly every greatest-guitar-solo list ever published.

Informed by: [Guitar.com – 20 greatest Hendrix guitar moments](https://guitar.com/features/jimi-hendrix-best-guitar-solos-songs-moments/), [Far Out Magazine](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jimi-hendrix-10-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time/), [Rolling Stone – 100 Greatest Guitar Solos](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitar-solos-1235519961/jimi-hendrix-machine-gun-1235520430/), [ClassicRockHistory.com](https://www.classicrockhistory.com/jimi-hendrix-guitar-solos/)

1. [All Along the Watchtower](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimi-hendrix-all-along-the-watchtower/) — Jimi Hendrix · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1968
2. [Voodoo Child (Slight Return)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimi-hendrix-voodoo-child-slight-return/) — Jimi Hendrix · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1968
3. [Little Wing](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimi-hendrix-little-wing/) — Jimi Hendrix · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
4. [Red House](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-red-house/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
5. [Purple Haze](https://greatestsolos.com/song/jimi-hendrix-purple-haze/) — Jimi Hendrix · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
6. [Hey Joe](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-hey-joe/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1966
7. [Bold as Love](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-bold-as-love/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
8. [Castles Made of Sand](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-castles-made-of-sand/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
9. [Foxy Lady](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-foxy-lady/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
10. [Manic Depression](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-manic-depression/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
11. [Crosstown Traffic](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-crosstown-traffic/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1968
12. [Spanish Castle Magic](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-spanish-castle-magic/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
13. [The Wind Cries Mary](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-the-wind-cries-mary/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
14. [1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-1983-a-merman-i-should-turn-to-be/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1968
15. [Third Stone from the Sun](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-third-stone-from-the-sun/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967
16. [If 6 Was 9](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-if-6-was-9/) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience · solo by Jimi Hendrix · 1967

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