Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

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Written by: Jimi Hendrix
Produced by: Chas Chandler
Released: Oct. '68 on Reprise
Non-single

After a night of partying in New York on May 2nd, 1968, Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, Traffic's Stevie Winwood and Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady returned to Electric Ladyland studio and cut "Voodoo Chile," a fifteen-minute take on Muddy Waters' "Rolling Stone." Later that day, Hendrix, Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding were being filmed by a TV crew. Hendrix improvised the staggering wah-wah guitar riff for "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" on the spot. "It was like, 'OK, boys, look like we're recording,' " Hendrix said. "We weren't thinking about what we were playing."

Appears on: Electric Ladyland (MCA)

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