Ray Charles may have been born in Georgia, but he was discovered in Seattle after playing at the local Rocking Chair club and doing his earliest recordings on the city’s Down Beat label. Seattle is ...

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Both "All Along the Watchtower" and "Foxy Lady" appeared on Hendrix’s 1967 debut album Are You Experienced? But according to Hendrix’s biographer Harry Shapiro, the rocker actually hated playing "Foxy ...

Jimi Hendrix first cut his teeth as a guitarist in the early 1960s. He hadn’t made a name for himself as a solo artist yet; instead, he played backup guitar for other popular artists, including Sam ...

In a recent interview, Junior Marvin marveled at the two sides of Jimi Hendrix, noting how he was “playing guitar behind his neck” onstage, but too shy to look him in the eye off it. The Wailers ...

Before Jeff "Skunk" Baxter made a name for himself with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, he was selling guitars. One of his customers was Jimi Hendrix. And as Baxter tells Rick Beato, the deal they ...

PORTLAND -- Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his Portland hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.