Star Spangled Banner / Purple Haze & Instrumental Solo
1970 · Cotillion SD3-500 · USA
- Artist
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Title
- Star Spangled Banner / Purple Haze & Instrumental Solo
- Release
- Woodstock
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Cotillion # SD3-500
- Format
- LP · Soundtrack
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Traditional; Jimi Hendrix
- Genre
- Rock · Psychedelic Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", regarded as a great music event with many references to Civil Rights and Vietnam, such as from Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald and concluding with Jimi Hendrix's version of "Star Spangled Banner" which many interpreted (amongst other things) as a comment on the need for change in American policies like the Vietnam War (Cotillion # SD3-500). Check out the film Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music.1Sources1Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair (James E. Perone, 2005)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Rock trio formed 1966 in London around Jimi Hendrix (b. 1942, Seattle, Washington; ex-101st Airborne). [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release Woodstock
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]