The Wind Cries Mary / Purple Haze

by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Wind Cries Mary / Purple Haze cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Track Record
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 12:01
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This pivotal release showcases two contrasting facets of the trio's groundbreaking approach to electric guitar. While one side demonstrates aggressive, fuzz-laden riffs and striking chord voicings, the other provides a softer, more melodic rhythm-and-blues ballad structure, illustrating the breadth of Hendrix's revolutionary techniques.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, guitar-driven, fuzz, bluesy, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. The Wind Cries Mary (3:20)
  2. Fire (2:34)
  3. Purple Haze (2:37)
  4. Highway Child (3:30)

Credits

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