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The Wind Cries Mary is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience released as the band’s third single, backed with “Highway Chile”, on May 5, 1967. The track is an example of psychedelic blues-rock, as the song is in the key of F major, with a guitar solo primarily involving the F major pentatonic scale. One of Hendrix’s first hits in England, the song was recorded at the end of the “Fire” sessions. Today, it is #370 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It has been covered by musicians such as Jamie Cullum, John Mayer and Xavier Rudd. In the USA, the song was first released as B-side to the song “Purple Haze” in June 1967 and later on the USA compilation version of the album Are You Experienced and along with the other sides of their first three... Read on...