Poem: Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better

The first thing I heard by Jimi Hendrix was Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). And then the smelling salts. When I was back on two legs, I remember asking my dad if he knew anything about this guy that sounded like nothing else I’d heard. He laughed and reeled off the names of a few of the classic hits – smiling, remembering that his old covers band used to …