Hey Joe opus : Red meat

"The Colorado bluesman has made Hey Joe a theme tune and live staple. Here the song made famous by Jimi Hendrix (with whom a young Taylor jammed) becomes the centrepiece of a gaunt meditation on betrayal and murder, cast in Taylor's customary "trance blues" mode; guitar drones shot through with lines of cornet, fiddle and banjo and fronted by his growling declamations ... A visceral tour de force".

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