Experience Hendrix — which features musicians from the bands mentioned, as well as Billy Cox, who played bass with Hendrix in the Band of Gypsys, Ernie Isley, who as a child knew Hendrix personally, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Jonny Lang, Keb Mo, the North Mississippi All-Stars and others — is a project designed to carry on Hendrix's legacy by his family.

To his youngest sister Janie Hendrix, Jimi was not so much a pop-culture icon or a hugely influential guitarist, but a flesh-and-blood person. Janie has taken over for her late father Al Hendrix, who in the mid-1990s wrested
Control of Jimi's music from the recording industry. She is now the CEO of the Hendrix empire that runs the Experience Hendrix tour.

Janie was just 9 years old in the fall of 1970 when Jimi Hendrix died in London after a night of sleeping pills and wine.
Jimi Hendrix first emerged as a rising star during the legendary Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. He not only became enormously influential to generations of guitarists who followed him, but his unique sense of style became a staple of 1960s-era fashion.

Janie said that her brother adopted much of his sense of fashion from his grandparents.

Now, Janie Hendrix carefully manages Jimi's musical legacy. She said that the company is still planning CD releases of Hendrix's music, including an upcoming release of a live concert at San Francisco's Winterland.