There's one obvious area where you can trace the lineage of Jimi Hendrix 's oeuvre to present-day rock. The way he snobbishly refuses to do any of the songs people want to hear. And if Mr Hendrix wants to do two separate versions of 'Machine...
Jon Spencer may play them with a twist of hardcore irony and postmodern chic but to Hendrix , the blues were the real deal: a mere matter of course for a black soul brother who picked up a guitar in the '50s and breathed in the life force of...
