Artist	Song
Muddy Waters	Got My Mojo Working
from Muddy Waters the Anthology: 1947-1972 (2001)
Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues
from The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
Robert Johnson	Sweet Home Chicago
from Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (1996)
B.B. King	Sweet Little Angel
from Singin' the Blues / The Blues (1993)
Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightning
from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (1997)
The Impressions	People Get Ready
from Ultimate Collection: The Impressions (2001)
Little Richard	I Don't Know What You Got Parts 1 & 2
from Talking 'Bout Soul (2007)
Don Covay & The Goodtimers	Mercy, Mercy
from Mercy! (2005)
The Isley Brothers	Testify, Pt. 1 & 2
from The Isley Brothers: The Full Discover Package (2007)
Lonnie Youngblood	Go Go Shoes
from Get In the Groove (2006)
Chuck Berry	Roll over Beethoven
from Chuck Berry: The Anthology (2000)
Bo Diddley	Who Do You Love?
from The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Bo Diddley - His Best (1997)
T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
from The Complete Capitol/Black & White Recordings (2008)
Freddie King & Freddy King	Hide Away
from 17 Greatest Hits (2005)
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	Little Girl
from Blues Breakers (with Eric Clapton) (2001)
The Yardbirds	Shapes of Things
from Shapes of Things - The Very Best of the Yardbirds (2006)
The Who	Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
from The Ultimate Collection (2009)
The Animals	Boom Boom
from The Best of The Animals (2008)
Elvis Presley	Jailhouse Rock
from Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (2002)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets	Not Fade Away
from The "Chirping" Crickets (2004)
John Lee Hooker	I'm in the Mood
from The Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues: John Lee Hooker (2002)
Lonnie Mack	Wham!
from For Collectors Only (2005)
Ike & Tina Turner	You Are My Sunshine
from Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show, Vol. 1 (2005)
Wes Montgomery	Switchin'
from Wes Montgomery: Greatest Hits (1996)
Les Paul & Mary Ford	Tiger Rag
from Les Paul with Mary Ford - The Best of the Capitol Masters: 90th Birthday Edition (2005)

Comment:

Jimi Hendrix was like so many artists, yet utterly unlike anyone else. Come to think of it, so were the stars he grew up on. Elvis Presley might not have invented rock, but he was the first to perfect it, and the cellblock-leveling rockablues howl of "Jailhouse Rock" wasn't lost on 14-year-old Jimi, who not only saw the gold lamé-jacketed King in concert, but even [i]sketched[/i] him. We haven't said much about Hendrix's rooster-strutting sexuality, but it's pretty clear from the blues-honkin' swagger of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" that Jimi wasn't learning just [i]licks[/i] from his favorite players. The Isley Brothers-Hendrix Influence Thruway runs in two directions (as you'll see in our Legacy playlist); in "Testify, Pt. 1 & 2," the barbed-wire wail of Jimi's guitar works the Isleys into such a tornado-in-the-revival-tent fury that it makes their first gospel soul hit, "Shout," seem like a ballad. And for all the words that tumble from Bob Dylan's mouth in "Subterranean Homesick Blues," [i]compromise[/i] certainly isn't one of them, his every syllable the embodiment of a master at the peak of his game. From Buddy Holly to B. B. King, we've got all the musical spices that Jimi slow-cooked into his psychedelic stew.

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