Jimi Hendrix, Bluegrass Star
Geoffrey Becker · Prairie schooner · 2004
In front of the Pompidou Center, a pretty girl with a violin case took a position about fifteen yards to my left. She wore tight jeans and a black cowboy shirt with pearly buttons, and I kept one eye on her as she took out her instrument and applied rosin to the bow in brisk, short strokes. I finished up "All Along the Watchtower," nodded to the family from Peoria who had stopped to stare at me as if I were a roadside accident, lay down my Strat and went over.