Jimi Hendrix

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/9/2023
  

  An Unlikely Coalition Trying to Save a Nashville Black Landmark

  A Nashville Elks lodge building was the 1960s home of a music club where superstars of Black music—and the yet-to-be famous Jimi Hendrix—played during the segregation era. Like many such landmarks, decades of highway building broke up the surrounding community and made the building endangered today. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/20/2022
  

  Another Hendrix Legacy Lawsuit: Family Seeks to Block Royalty Claim by Heirs of Bandmates

  Lawyers for the Hendrix family argued that a suit for back royalties by the heirs of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were invalid because of waivers signed by the guitarist's British bandmates soon after his 1970 death. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/26/2021
  

  Rewinding Jimi Hendrix’s National Anthem

  "Jimi’s Woodstock anthem was both an expression of protest at the obscene violence of a wholly unnecessary war and an affirmation of aspects of the American experiment entirely worth fighting for."

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  9/18/2020
  

  How Jimi Hendrix, Racism and Grunge Intersect, 50 Years after the Guitarist’s Death

  Although the guitarist made a global impact on rock music, he left a particular legacy for Black musicians in his hometown of Seattle. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/18/2020
  

  How Jimi Hendrix’s London Years Changed Music

  A new book, at the 50th anniversary of the guitar master's death, takes Jimi Hendrix's leap from chitlin circuit sideman to London sensation as a turning point for rock music.