Jimi's Blues

These days I've been listening to Jimi Hendrix's "Blues" album, that begins and ends with "Hear My Train a Comin'," over and over again. The album begins with the song's acoustic version (made famous in his biography film) and ends with its electric version (which I heard for the first time in this album.) O what consolation you get! How invigorating Jimi's guitar is! Almost seraphic... The German media theorist Friedrich Kittler is known as a big fan of Jimi's. And there are no doubt many others for whom Jimi is his/her own Zarathustra from a higher altitude!