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Black History Year

He Never Listened To The Haters And Blazed His Own Trail

Black History Year

PushBlack

History

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

He was a tall, skinny, hippie “flower child” punk who broke barriers for Black guitarists. But he never imagined that his gorgeous, reimagined version of a beloved American song would have such an unexpected response – and enrage so many white people!


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0:00.0

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0:27.3

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0:33.5

He never listened to the haters and blazed his own trail.

0:38.6

He was a tall, skinny, hippie, flower child punk who broke barriers for black guitars.

0:45.2

But he never imagined that his gorgeous, reimagined version of a beloved American song

0:51.3

would have such an unexpected response and enrage so many white people.

0:58.4

This is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in school.

1:04.9

All his life, white people harassed him in the army, in his hometown of Seattle, in Jim Crow America,

1:13.1

army officers who shouted in his face knew this kid with soft hands did not belong. No one cared

1:19.7

enough to see his genius, but soon the world would. When Al Hendrix bought his 12-year-old son a guitar, he never suspected what Jimmy would become.

1:37.3

Jimmy spent years playing the Chitlin Circuit without much success, but all the while

1:43.3

he was innovating how the electric guitar was played.

1:47.0

Then a massive opportunity arose to show the world what he could do.

1:53.0

When Woodstock asked him to headline the massive festival in 1969,

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