The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
I stand up next to a mountain. I chop it down with edge of my hand.
Album: Electric Ladyland (3rd album)
Recorded: New York, New York
Genre: Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues
Album Release: October 16th 1968
Length: 5:13
Producer: Chas Chandler
Vocalist: Jimi Hendrix (age 25)
Label: Reprise Records (USA)
Official Audio
Live in Hawaii from 1970 [amazing performance]
Voodoo Chile (15 minute version)
Charts, Streams & Sales
UK (singles): Number 1 (certified gold)
Spotify: Over 175 million
YouTube Music: Over 40 million
Guitar Worlds Greatest Wah Solos of All Time: 1st
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004): 101st
MusicRadar's Best Guitar Riffs in Rock 'n' Roll History: 1st
Credits
Bass, drums, guitar
Details
- Electric Ladyland would be the last album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
- The original, 15-minute version came to the band during a jam session.
- Hendrix declared the song to be the national anthem of the Black Panthers.
- The performance of 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' from Hawaii in 1970 is a prime example of the infectiousness of music. At the start, only a few people are dancing, while by the end many in the crowd, including young children, are on their feet having a good time. The music fills the air and when people breathe it in they also inhale the spirit of the song. For those so inclined, dancing becomes not an option, but a necessity.
- "I stand up next to a mountain and chop it down with the edge of my hand" is a lyric that rocks so hard it could start an avalanche. It expresses a mighty attitude that portrays the singer as the master of nature itself. As if to say, the world does not effect me, I effect the world. Mountains crumble before me. If you hear the line and don't immediately start pulling the stank face, you should listen again.
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