15 Sep 2007

Access All Areas: Are You Experienced?

From Access All Areas, 5:00 pm on 15 September 2007

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In September 1967 Jimi Hendrix released his hugely influential debut album Are You Experienced?. Hendrix was very much a black rock musician in a white musical world and despite cutting his teeth on a musical diet of blues and soul, he was often criticised for not being 'black' enough. Trevor Reekie considers Jimi Hendrix and the question of blackness.

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