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...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...
Gender roles are examined throughout the piece which is danced to John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta's spoken synopsis of "A Streetcar Named Desire," John Lee Hooker's "Smoky Joe's Cafe," and a Jimi Hendrix song, among others. The movement is jerky, yet sensual, an erotic power struggle whose attitude carries over to the curtain call which brought down the house Tuesday night...
...stars, of course, have always drawn from the blues. Last year MCA released a terrific CD of blues songs titled Blues recorded between 1966 and 1970 by guitar genius Jimi Hendrix. Today's young, fringier musicians are remaking the blues yet again. Its attraction is not hard to understand: rock is good for rage, lust and protest, but for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. One of the last songs Kurt Cobain recorded before he committed suicide was Lead Belly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night...