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Originals - The World of Jimi Hendrix

Artist Song
Love  Hey Joe  
Howlin' Wolf  Killing Floor  
Bob Dylan  Like a Rolling Stone  
B.B. King  Rock Me Baby  
The Troggs  Wild Thing  
Bob Dylan  Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?  
Muddy Waters  (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man  
Big Mama Thornton  Hound Dog  
Stevie Wonder  I Was Made to Love Her  
Them  Gloria  
Bob Dylan  All Along the Watchtower  
Earl King  Come On (Parts I and II)  
Elmore James  My Bleeding Heart  
Bob Dylan  Drifter's Escape  
Cream  Sunshine of Your Love  
Albert King  Born Under a Bad Sign  
Muddy Waters  Mannish Boy  
Chuck Berry  Johnny B. Goode  
Carl Perkins  Blue Suede Shoes  
US Air Force Academy Band  Star Spangled Banner  

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Sure, Jimi Hendrix was one of the best songwriters of his generation, but he also reached out to his peers for their best work . . . and rewrote [i]that[/i] as well. "Hey Joe," a high-tension dialogue between a murderous husband on the lam and his bestest pal, has a mystifying history — several writers claim it, and it was recorded half-a-dozen times before Jimi made it his own — but Love's Arthur Lee says his Benzedrine-riddled version inspired Hendrix, and that's good enough for us. Bob Dylan's harmonica wails a soul-baring whine over the freight-train throb of "All Along the Watchtower," but Dylan liked Hendrix's revamp so much he calls [i]it[/i] the definitive version, and to back it up, he changed the way he plays it in concert, reflecting Jimi's influence. And the Troggs took "Wild Thing," a three-chord caveman stomp written by Angelina Jolie's uncle, to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic, in the process making it the only British Invasion-era chart-topper to feature an [i]ocarina[/i] solo. But don't stop there — from Chuck Berry to Cream, we've got all the songs that Hendrix noised up, rocked out, and psychedelicized into immortality.
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