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Today, we turn to a musician whose care there were moves separations long stretches were Jimmy simply simply had to figure things out on his own no one was buying but whose shadow is so long that every electric guitarist since has had to walk through it.

Jimi Hendrix.

He didn’t just play louder. He didn’t just play faster. He changed what the electric guitar meant. He changed the expectations for sound, for performance, for what a song could hold.

In this episode, I want to step past the posters and the legends—the burning guitar, the psychedelic clothes, the famous take on “The Star-Spangled Banner”—and really look at four things:

His background: the fragile, human story underneath the icon.
His influences: because Hendrix was not a meteor out of nowhere.
His effect on music: how he reshaped the instrument and the stage.
His life and his death: and the pressures and possibilities that surrounded him at the end.

At the end of this journey, we’ll eventually look forward—to some very different voices who were changing the sound of the 1960s in their own way: Diana Ross and The Supremes.

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