Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock ‘N’ Roll Revolution
Charles Shaar Murray
256 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0312063245
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Language: English
Publish: 687510000000
African AmericanBiographyEssaysHistoryMusicMusic BiographyNonfiction
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.