Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock'n'Roll Revolution, Paperback/Charles Shaar Murray

Called by "Entertainment Weekly" "The best book on Hendrix," "Crosstown Traffic" rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black musical tradition, social history, and the upheaval of the 1960s. About the Author Charles Shaar Murray won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Postwar Rock 'n' Roll Revolution . He lives in England.