American Icons: Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner”

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix‘s performance of the national anthem at Woodstock hit like a shock wave; with its distortion and chaos, it sounded like a rupture in something sacred. Two music scholars and two rock guitarists put together the pieces. Produced by David Krasnow.

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