Part tribute show, part "Divas Live!" Experience Hendrix brings Brad Whitford, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi together to honor Jimi Hendrix
Jonny Lang and Susan Tedeschi are two accomplished musicians, with several Grammy nominations to their credit (even a win, for Lang).
Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, veteran guitarists Ernie Isley and Steve Vai, and metal band Living Colour, are no spring chickens either. Each could headline their own show with their own material.
But when they play the Hippodrome Theater on Thursday, they won't be playing their stuff. They'll play Jimi Hendrix's.
They're just some of the performers on the Experience Hendrix tour, a traveling revue-style concert that gathers some of the country's better-known musicians to perform two hours of Hendrix's catalog.
It's part tribute show and part VH1 "Divas Live!" but with Gibsons and Fenders instead of Arethas or Mariahs.
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Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
