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"Hey Joe"..".Purple Haze"..".Foxy Lady"..".The Wind Cries Mary"...Jimi Hendrix's music is so distinctive, so remarkable, so soul-stirring that now, twenty years after his death, he still sells three to four million albums a year. Right-handed in life but left-handed on guitar, Jimi remains to this day a mystery, with his entire recorded work completed in a mere five years, ending with his tragic death in 1970. Many have tried to answer the questions: Who was the real Jimi? Who was the man behind the Cherokee-Irish-African-American enigma? Like no Hendrix book before it, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings offers many clues to understanding the real man behind the public figure. While everyone remembers him as one of the gods of guitar, Jimi was also a prolific and remarkable writer. This collection of his unpublished writings - poetry, songs, a movie outline, and notes - along with previously unpublished photographs and drawings, offers new insights into the legendary guitarist and his music. With much of the book printed in facsimile to reproduce exactly Jimi's original handwriting, including the complete lyrics to the legendary, never-released album Black Gold, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings is a remarkable trove that fully shows the creative mind of a great artist. In producing this labor of love, Hendrix archivist Bill Nitopi, a consultant to the Hard Rock Cafes and contributor to Guitar World magazine, has created the one Jimi Hendrix book that every fan must own.