"Free Spirit" is a 1966 song by

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session player Hermon Hitson (Philadelphia, 1943), which was mistakenly released as the title track of two albums of bootleg Jimi Hendrix recordings. The title track of both Free Spirit bootleg albums, and other songs recorded in the same sessions, contained contributions by

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and

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, but no verified content by Hendrix himself. A version of "

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" is sometimes labelled as Hendrix, yet is Hermon Hitson.

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