Jesse Boykins III // Amorous

Jimi Hendrix // Voodoo Chile 

At 15 minutes, Voodoo Chile the longest recorded studio song by Hendrix. It has been called “virtually a chronological guided tour of blues styles” ranging from early Delta blues, through the electric blues of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, to the more sophisticated style of B.B. King, and the “cosmic blurt” of John Coltrane. Lyrically, the song is “part of a long, long line of supernatural brag songs”. Hendrix’s song opens with:

Well the night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red (2X)Well, my poor mother cried out, ‘Lord, the gypsy was right’, an’ I see’d her fell down right dead..

"Hoochie Coochie Man", the Muddy Waters/Willie Dixon blues classic, opens:

The gypsy woman told my mother, before I was born’You got a boy child comin’, goin’ be a son of a gun’ …