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  • ISBN:
    0312063245
  • ISBN-13:
    9780312063245
  • PUB. DATE:
    October 1991
  • PUBLISHER:
    St. Martin's Press
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Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution by Charles Shaar Murray

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The Legend Jimi Hendrixby Anonymous

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CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC Every time I hear the name Jimi Hendrix I think of that awesome riff in the beginning of Voodoo Child along with psychedelic clothes and LSD. In the book Crosstown Traffic the author Charles Shaar Murray paints a perfect picture of these sense in your mind. Murray not only tells you about Hendrix?s life but he also tells you about the 60?s era and all the struggles Hendrix faces...

Murray Brings Out the Hendrix Lover in all of Usby Anonymous

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This book is not just a biography as some may think. It also discusses different political, social, cultural, and of course musical aspects that come from a variety of perspectives. This allows the reader to better see where Hendrix was coming from and how he came about creating such an impacting new type of music, which caused him to be the legend that he is. Even if you're not quite the Hendrix fan...

Jimi Henrdix is the best music artist everby Anonymous

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Jimi hendrix is the best of the best youll never find a better guiatar player then hem its impossible jimi was the best and the one thing i like the most is jimi played his guiatar im some concerets up side down and played it better then he did when it was the other way around jimi hendix was a musican,and idol, and most of all a hero. Thank you for reading my review.

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Crosstown Traffic

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  • Pub. Date: October 1991
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Sales Rank: 427,441

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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.