![]() When he started out from a classical blues theme, he as likely as not ended up with something else entirely but when he began with something strangely, terrifying, beautifully alien, it always turned back, one way or another, into the blues. ![]() The blues was ever-present in everything he did it was something that traveled with him into musical realms unimaginable to others, something he carried with him into songs and pieces which had nothing whatsoever to do with the conventional structures and themes of the blues, into worlds which the music’s traditional grandmasters wouldn’t recognise as blues – or even as music. ![]() Let’s get the paradoxes out of the way right up front: the blues was a musical space to which Jimi Hendrix would always return in order to recharge his musical and spiritual batteries but, once refreshed, he generally couldn’t wait to leave. ![]() From Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1998 ![]()
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