Jimi Hendrix - Little WingAlbum: Axis: Bold as Love [1967]
"little wing" is a good example of a song that has grown in stature after relatively humble beginnings to rank among its composer's most popular efforts. jimi hendrix originally developed the lovely guitar pattern that serves as the basis of the song will playing in greenwich village in 1966 and finished it in the fall of 1967 in time to record it for his second album. playing the guitar through a leslie organ speaker, he emphasized its melodic appeal, adding lyrics that paid tribute to a generous, if somewhat ethereal female who might easily be a child or an angel as a woman. the brief song, with its two verses and no real chorus (the title is mentioned only as an afterthought at the end), was placed near the end of the first side of "axi: bold as love", which peaked in top five in both the US and the UK. "little wing" was not released as a single and didn't attract much attention initially, as it was in a very different style from hendrix's usual work. but it was appreciated by eric clapton, who recorded a version of it in september of 1970, with his group derek & the dominos. nine days later, hendrix died. when clapton released "layla and other assorted love songs" that december, people who hadn't noticed "little wing" three years earlier suddenly heard it differently. of course, it was not something of a tribute to the late guitarist.
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