“Angel” by Jimi Hendrix

"Angel" surfaced in 1971 on The Cry of Love, the first album of Jimi Hendrix's music to appear after his death in September 1970, but he had cut it only months before, meant for what would have been his fourth studio album. He wrote it and produced it, with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Billy Cox on bass. Britain got it as an A-side; America stuck it on the flip.

The song was older than it looked. Hendrix and Mitchell first taped it at Olympic Studios in London in October 1967, under the title "Little Wing", and on November 13 that year he made a solo demo there as "Sweet Angel", later dusted off for South Saturn Delta in 1997. The finished take is Hendrix at his gentlest.

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