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Charles Shaar Murray once asked B.B. King if he considered Jimi Hendrix to be a bluesman. 'I consider him to be a musician, a great, great musician.' And Charles Shaar Murray has written the book that does justice to that accolade. It is more than a biography. The salient facts of Hendrix's life are summarized but the book's purpose is altogether of a higher order. Through a succession of wide-ranging, richly informed chapters the author describes Hendrix's very individual journey 'to the other side of town.' As Charles Shaar Murray says, Hendrix 'transgressed many boundaries; both arbitrary musical definitions separating blues and soul or jazz and rock, and also those fundamental divides between the archaic and the avant-garde, between individualist and collectivist philosophies, between blacks and whites, between America and Britain, between passive acquiescence and furious resistance, between lust for life and obsession with death.' 'Hendrix was Hendrix' it has been said. Charles Shaar Murray demonstrates the truth of this, compellingly elucidating the 'unique musical formulation' that was Hendrix's art.

About the Author :
Charles Shaar Murray is an award-winning author, journalist, musician and cultural infidel. He first appeared in print in 1970 in the notorious 'Schoolkids' issue of OZ magazine. By 1972,he was working for NME, subsequently becoming Associate Editor. Crosstown Traffic, his acclaimed study of Jimi Hendrix, won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award in 1990: a decade later, Boogie Man was shortlisted for the same award. The first two decades of 'his journalism, criticism and vulgar abuse', to use his own description, were collected in Shots from the Hip. In 2010 he received a Record Of The Day for his contributions to music journalism.

Review :
* The artistry of this book matches that of its subject. -- Nick Tosches * We've seen several biographies of Jimi Hendrix but Crosstown Traffic's thrust is considerably more ambitious ... Murray's exploration of Hendrix's role as a black rocker in a practically all-white pop-music elite is as telling an examination of rock and race, and of tensions and prejudices behind the sixties peace-and-brotherhood facade, as popular music writing has seen. Crosstown Traffic is an important book and, in its range and clarity of thought, an exemplary one. -- Robert Palmer * Mouthwatering stuff for any serious Jimi Hendrix fan ... Murray is certainly the first writer to fully portray the ways in which Hendrix shaped the future in which we now live, from hard rock to funk to jazz. Crosstown Traffic also stands as the best layman's history ot the electric guitar I've ever come across. -- Dave Marsh * Murray goes so far inside the myth that it dissolves. What is left is a man pursuing hiw own destiny, piece by piece, day by day. -- Greil Marcus


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  • ISBN-13: 9780857868015
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0857868012
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop


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