FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
PHOTO CREDIT: Linda McCartney/National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution
seventy-eight years ago, the genius Jimi Hendrix came into the world. Although we lost him at the age of twenty-seven in 1970, the music he left has inspired scores of guitarists. Recording with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys, Hendrix’s vocabulary and dexterity on the guitar is immense! I wanted to put together a Lockdown Playlist on his birthday containing album tracks, live cuts, in addition to rarer tracks that many people might not have heard of. In his short life, Hendrix laid down so many staggering works and, to me, he was an underrated singer. His voice is so commanding, expressive and versatile and that, combined with his guitar and Noel Redding (bass), and Mitch Mitchell (percussion) – in The Jimi Hendrix Experience -, led to some truly wonderful music. To tip my cap to, perhaps, the greatest guitarist who has ever lived, here are some epic Hendrix licks, jams and guitar explosions that displays his…
PHOTO CREDIT: Mike Berkofsky
ENDLESS talent.