The MVV Journal
Jimi Hendrix Saga: The Sideman Nashville to New York
From Nashville’s Jefferson Street to the clubs of New York City, Jimi Hendrix spent years standing behind other artists while quietly becoming impossible to ignore. Playing alongside the Isley Brothers, Don Covay, Little Richard, Curtis Knight and others, every stage became a classroom and every mile another lesson. By 1966, the sideman was finally ready to step out front, and one man in a Greenwich Village audience was about to change everything.