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Francis Davis is one of this nation's savviest and most admired music and cultural critics

despite its reputation as an eminently forgettable period

In the chaos following World War II

Down at the Dinghy

Becoming Jimi Hendrix dinotrux and the dark secrets they'reBecoming Jimi Hendrix traces Jimmys early musical roots, from a harrowing, hand to mouth upbringing in a poverty stricken, broken Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who was magnetically drawn to the rhythm and blues scene in Nashville. As a sideman, Hendrix played with the likes of Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, and Sam & Davebut none knew what to make of