Editing Jimmy James and the Blue Flames (section)

==Repertoire==
At the Cafe Wha?, one of the first songs performed by Jimmy James and the Blue Flames was "[[Wild Thing (The Troggs song)|Wild Thing]]", then a Top-40 radio hit by [[the Troggs]].{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=53}} Another was "Hey Joe" – Hendrix preferred the slower, moodier version by [[American folk music revival|folk]] musician [[Tim Rose]] over the fast hit rendition by [[the Leaves]].{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=77}} Other songs included [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Like a Rolling Stone]]", "[[Hang On Sloopy]]" and "[[House of the Rising Sun]]".{{sfn|Roby|Schreiber|2010|p=163}} Sometime Hendrix collaborator Paul Caruso recalled a performance of [[the Beatles]]' "[[Rain (Beatles song)|Rain]]" with the bassist attempting to sing [[John Lennon]]'s backwards vocal at the end of the song.{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=54}} Randy California also remembered "[[High Heel Sneakers]]", "[[Jimmy Reed]] kind of songs", and "some standard blues things",{{sfn|Roby|1994}} such as [[Muddy Waters]] and [[Bo Diddley]] songs, also found on [[John Hammond Jr.]]'s blues-rock album ''So Many Roads'' (1965).{{sfn|Roby|Schreiber|2010|p=162}} During his time in the Village, Hendrix was distancing himself from the Harlem R&B scene, where he felt overly criticized because of his evolving guitar style and lifestyle.{{sfn|Roby|Schreiber|2010|p=158}} However, he continued to play covers of R&B hits with the Blue Flames, such as "[[Shotgun (Junior Walker & the All Stars song)|Shotgun]]", "[[In the Midnight Hour]]" and "[[Mercy, Mercy (Don Covay song)|Mercy, Mercy]]", a song he had recorded with [[Don Covay]].{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=54}}{{efn|In his sometimes controversial [[Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix|biography]], [[Charles R. Cross]] also lists "[[Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf song)|Killing Floor]]", "[[Knock on Wood (Eddie Floyd song)|Knock on Wood]]" and "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]" that are not mentioned elsewhere.{{sfn|Cross|2005|pp=139–140}}}}

Also performed were early versions of Hendrix compositions that the Experience later recorded. Hendrix biographer Keith Shadwick commented
{{blockquote|He [Hendrix] continued to compose new tunes so that the Blue Flames were not just a covers band. People around him at this time remember Hendrix playing embryonic versions (or at least portions) of "[[Third Stone from the Sun]]", "[[The Wind Cries Mary]]" and "Remember" in addition to "[[Red House (song)|Red House]]".{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=80}}}}
The Blue Flames also performed "Mr. Bad Luck",{{sfn|McDermott|1997|p=3}} later recorded by the Experience, which first appeared as "Look Over Yonder" on ''[[Rainbow Bridge (album)|Rainbow Bridge]]'' and later on ''[[Valleys of Neptune]]''; later Hendrix biographer/producer John McDermott identified "Mr. Bad Luck" as "among the few original compositions Hendrix performed in tiny Greenwich Village nightspots as a little known guitarist fronting Jimmy James & the Blue Flames in 1966".{{sfn|McDermott|2010|pp=17–18}} According to Frank Von Elmo, an early jam partner, they also played an early "[[Foxy Lady]]" and guitarist [[Bob Kulick]] remembered "a primitive version of 'Third Stone from the Sun'".{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=260, fn 26}} When ''[[Are You Experienced]]'' was first released, early supporter [[Linda Keith]] (who brought Hendrix to the attention of Chandler) said "none of the tracks [on the album] were a complete surprise to her, because most featured riffs, patterns and ideas she'd first heard in Greenwich Village that summer [of 1966]".{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=80}}