Interesting

The reason people have so many arguments about Star Wars is that the writers barely care about consistency.

Star Wars: Darth Vader killed Luke's father
ESB: Darth Vader is Luke's father
ESB: Leia kisses Luke
ROTJ: Leia is Luke's sister
ESB: Life creates The Force
TPM: Midichlorians

My dad was in the 101st at around the same time as Jimi (didn’t meet him), and he often speaks of how great the music was in those towns. If anyone could talk to Billy Cox to confirm, it would be great! I would love to know who Jimi heard in those towns and if there was some inspiration.

It is well known that Jimi was in the Army in the 101st Airborne. Black soldiers at the time would go to Black neighborhoods in Clarksville and Round Pond in TN and Clarksville, KY for R&R.

Bear in mind, that when "Thaw Out" was released, Motown was probably the most dominant musical force coming from the Black community, followed by Miles Davis. so for Jimi to know have known of Albert means that he was really plugged in.

The thing is, Albert Collins didn't become particularly famous until the middle 1980s. So for Jimi Hendrix to have been aware of him before either of them were particularly famous shows how deeply aware Jimi was of music in the Black community.

Jimi was a little over 10 years younger than Albert Collins, and it stands to reason that he knew who Albert Collins was, and consciously decided to appropriate Albert's song for his own purposes.

THIS song, "Thaw Out" was released in 1965 by a man named Albert Collins. Albert Collins was a guy who had some releases as a younger man, and gained some respect in the musical community, but he didn't really gain widespread attention until he was in his 40s. youtu.be/VR294vigTa8?...

I forgot that I wanted to mention this recording.
It was released in the late 80s/early 90s i'm not sure whether it  had been unreleased before then.
youtu.be/myY-3YDc0QI?...

To posthumously embrace Jimi would be to embrace a bunch of creatives from many disciplines who would *LOVE* to be accepted by mainstream Black America, but only as they are, not diluted.

Now is probably a good time to heap past due praise upon Greg Tate (RIP), Konda Mason, and Vernon Reid for founding an enduring community of outside-of-mainstream Black people: The Black Rock Coalition.

To posthumously embrace Jimi as an R&B dude would be to embrace everyone on the outside, and everyone outside the outside. All of the Conformity Wars have to end. Those People Aren’t Fucking Around Anymore.

What "Bop ON swing" means is that we are one people across all time and space.

It means everthing in the Blues and Gospel and Funk is relevant to each other. It means everything from drums and strings in Africa to electric guitars, synths, and drums are related.

What it means is that everything he learned playing swing was applicable in bebop. It means everything you kearn in bebop is backwards compatible to swing.

I saw him at a lecture for adult jazz students, and someone asked him to describe what happened when people went from playing swing to bebop. He hesitated and said "We didn’t go from swing to bop. It was bop ON swing." That’s a simple statement with incredible and true ramifications.

One of the most prolific musicians in jazz is a man named Jimmy Heath. (He’s the dad of Mtume, who wrote "Juicy Fruit" which was sampled for Biggie's "Juicy".)

The second mistake was defining "hip hop culture" in a way that defined itself apart from the rest of Black music (and a few other arts disciplines) while simultaneously defining itself as the heir to Black culture generally.