The Wind cries Mary — Wikipedia

The Wind Cries Mary is a rock ballad ^{[ first ]} Written by Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix composed this reconciling song after a violent argument with her girlfriend Kathy Mary Etchingham, in London ^{[ 2 ]} . More recent biographical documents have indicated that some of the words appeared in poems written by Hendrix earlier in his career when he was in Seattle.

She released in 45 rpm in 1967, with Highway Chile Opposite B. This is the third single released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Absent from the British edition of the album Are You Experienced , it appears on the North American edition. The 1997 reissues now all include it.

According to the story of his girlfriend of the time, Kathy Etchingham, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her about her lumpy potato puree cuisine, using “Mary” (the second name of Etchingham )) ^{[ 3 ] , [ 4 ] , [ 5 ]} . Etchingham suggested that the song line “A broom sadly sweeps the broken pieces of yesterday’s life” represents Hendrix sweeping the broken dishes that she threw after the argument ^{[ 5 ]} . In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the words represent “more than one person” ^{[ 6 ]} . Musical journalist David Stubbs stressed that Hendrix had also used the song’s sentence “Somewhere a queen cries / Somewhere a king has no woman” (“Somewhere a queen is week / SomeWhere to King Has No Wife” ) In a poem he wrote to another Mary who had been his girlfriend, Mary Washington. ^{[ 5 ]}

Billy Cox, longtime friend of Hendrix and later a bass player, noted the influence of Curtis Mayfield on the song. Hendrix interpreted elements or a first version in the summer of 1966 with his group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in New York. ^{[ first ]}

The Experience recorded it at Lane Lea studios in London in February 1967, during sessions for the single which will succeed Hey Joe . It is ultimately Purple Haze Who is chosen as the next single, while The Wind Cries Mary is designated as his successor. Hendrix producer, Chas Chandler, commented on the recording:

“It was recorded at the end of the session to Fire . We had about twenty minutes left. I proposed to make a demo of The Wind Cries Mary . Mitch Mitchell [The drummer] and Noel Redding [the bass player] had never heard it, so they were doing it without rehearsal. They played it once [and Hendrix then suggested overdubs]. In all, he put four or five other overdubs, but everything was done in twenty minutes. It was our third single. ^{[ 7 ]} »

The single, accompanied by the song Highway Chile Opposite B, the United Kingdom was released the May 5, 1967 And reached sixth place in UK Singles Chart. ^{[ 8 ]} In the United States, the song was released for the first time on the B side of the single Purple Haze in June 1967. It was then included on the American album Are You Experienced , released in August 1967. ^{[ 9 ]}

More recent biographical documents have indicated that some of the words appeared in poems written by Hendrix earlier in his career when he was in Seattle. According to her former Girlfriend of Seattle, Mary Washington, the words “Somewhere a queen cries / Somewhere a king has no woman” were written in a poem of love that Hendrix had written for her. ^{[ ten ]}

Hendrix often interpreted the song in concert in 1967 and 1968. A recording of the Monterey Pop Festival was then published on Live at Monterey (2007); another at Olympia in Paris appeared on Stages (1991) and The Jimi Hendrix Experience Box Set (2000). Stages Also includes another recording of the 1967 song from a Stockholm concert.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it in 379th place in its list of 500 largest songs of all time. ^{[ 11 ]}

The Wind Cries Mary has been taken up by many artists and in particular:

The Wind Cries Mary appears in the soundtrack of the film Good Morning England (2009).