Jimi Hendrix in 1967
A powerful performance by Jimi Hendrix of one of his great songs.
“The Wind Cries Mary” is written by Jimi Hendrix who wrote the song as a reconciliatory love song for his girlfriend in London, Kathy Etchingham. More recent biographical material indicated that some of the lyrics appeared in poetry written by Hendrix earlier in his career when he was in Seattle.
According to Hendrix’s then-girlfriend Etchingham, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her about her cooking lumpy mashed potatoes using “Mary” (Etchingham’s middle name).
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The Hendrix song It inspired Miles Davis’ Filles de Kilimanjaro studio album recorded in June and September 1968.
The music is posted below. Note how much the sound of Miles follows the theme of the great Hendrix song. And yet interprets it so beautifully in his own way.
Miles Davis’ Interpretation of Hendrix / 1958