Able to earn a decent rep on his block.
"Recognizing Hendrix as a major African American artist with thorny and extensive branches reaching all over-under across what we leftover '70s types tag The Black Experience can get ugly. Going there has proven to be an indelicate task at best. Expect trunkloads of feather boas to be ruffled while small armies of Afro-Picks, Huey Newton posters, and blue suede shoes to get moshed on in the process."
A quote from Greg Tate's "Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience" in Tony Green's St. Petersburg Times review "The concept of Jimi Hendrix"
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