Word: jimi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HENDRIX Jimi's dad is in a green haze after winning rights to his guitar-god son's legacy...
...ethical issues, not only about the quality, type and direction of posthumous material, but also about exactly who should benefit financially from the vast sums of money that can be generated. However, one thing advances in recording technology cannot do is alter the physical characteristics of these dead artists. Jimi Hendrix was considered by many to be a great left-handed guitarist--perhaps the greatest--during his all too short span on this earth. But your photograph shows him playing the guitar right-handed. JOHN PEACOCK Fenwick, Canada...
...being combined with newly recorded vocals from the three surviving Beatles. On one cut of Selena's new album, her Spanish vocals have been lifted from a song released years earlier and mixed with new English-language vocals by the group Barrio Boyzz. Meanwhile, a posthumous "new" album by Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Soup (MCA), recently arrived in stores. It features Hendrix, the guitar genius who died in 1970, jamming with freshly recorded drumming by Bruce Gary, a former member of the defunct '70s band the Knack. Would he have been Jimi's first choice? Some fans...
...shirts and knit caps. And continuing enthusiasm for Hendrix--he sold 3.5 million albums last year--has spawned a virtual cottage industry. A documentary about the guitarist by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker is currently in the works; an interactive Hendrix kiosk is on tour; and a $60 million Jimi Hendrix Museum is under construction in Seattle...
...best synthesist of them all, however, is Landreth, 43, a long-haired, laid-back bottleneck ace whose virtuosity evokes comparisons with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. A long-time sideman for such musicians as John Hiatt and John Mayall, the Mississippi-born, Lafayette-bred Landreth also played with Chenier in his prime. His first major-label solo album, 1992's Outward Bound, displayed a brilliant command of styles, including Chet Atkins-style flat picking, Delta blues and slide guitar. His most recent album, South of I-10 (referring to the interstate that bisects Louisiana), is even better. Creole Angel...