Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution

by Charles Shaar Murray

Overview

Called by "Entertainment Weekly" "The best book on Hendrix", "Crosstown Traffic" rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black musical tradition, social history, and the upheaval of the 1960s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312063245
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	09/28/1991
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Charles Shaar Murray won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Postwar Rock 'n' Roll Revolution. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction: The English and American Combined Anthem	1
1	The We Decade	11
2	Highway Chile	34
3	I'm a Man (At Least I'm Trying to Be)	58
4	Room Full of Mirrors	78
5	Never to Grow Old	106
6	Blue are the Life-giving Waters Taken for Granted	129
7	With the Power of Soul ... Anything is Possible	153
8	Hear My 'Trane A-comin'	182
	Coda: The English and American Combined Anthem (Slight Return)	207
Appendix	Music, Sweet Music, Drips from My Fender's Fingers	209
	Discography	218
	Jimi Hendrix on Video	232
	Bibliography	235
	Index	239