Ebook {Epub PDF} Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop by Charles Shaar Murray

In addition to his magazine work, Murray has written a number of books. Non-fiction. David Bowie: An Illustrated Record (), with Roy Carr, ISBN ; Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop (), a musical biography of Jimi Hendrix, ISBN ; won the Ralph Gleason Music Book Award. MURRAY, Charles Shaar (?)– PERSONAL: Born c. ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, St. Martin's Press, 5th Ave.,New York, NY CAREER: Writer. Former editor of New Musical Express, England.. WRITINGS: (With Roy Carr) David Bowie: An Illustrated Record (biography), Avon (New York, NY), Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-war Rock 'n' Roll Revolution .  · Crosstown Traffic explores the Jimi Hendrix mythos from an Englishman's perspective. This book contains less details on Hendrix life and more on who he played with when, how his music developed and why.4/5.

Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop Paperback - International Edition, Novem by Charles Shaar Murray (Author) out of 5 stars 18 ratings. Answer (1 of 29): Handedness is complicated. There are some guitar players (e.g. Robert Fripp, David Byrne, me) who write with our left hands, but play guitar with our right hands. Hendrix wrote with his right hand, but played guitar left-handed. According to Charles Shaar Murray's book about. Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop by Charles Shaar Murray - paperback () published by Canongate 15 November The best and most ambitious book about Jimi Hendrix, being reissued with a revised introduction on the 70th anniversary of Hendrix's birth.

Charles Shaar Murray (born Charles Maximillian Murray; 27 June ) is an English music journalist and broadcaster. He has worked on the New Musical Express and many other magazines and newspapers, and has been interviewed for a number of television documentaries and reports on music. Charles Shaar Murray Crosstown Traffic charts the routes Hendrix took to arrive at his 'unique musical formulation'. The result is a bravura study of his art and life that has become established as the definitive work on 'the most eloquent instrumentalist ever to work in rock.'. Winner of the Ralph Gleason Music Book Award on first publication. Crosstown Traffic explores the Jimi Hendrix mythos from an Englishman's perspective. This book contains less details on Hendrix life and more on who he played with when, how his music developed and why.