The Broom, The Guitar, And The Cost of Genius
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The Broom, The Guitar, And The Cost of Genius
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The Broom, The Guitar, And The Cost of Genius
In this episode, we trace the early life and choices that shaped James Marshall Hendrix from a broom-tilting child to a prodigy whose single-minded pursuit of music set the stage for both meteoric success and devastating loss. What did those early deprivations, decisions, and losses cost him - and how did they set the terms of his rise?
Person: James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)
Date: November 27, 1942 (birth); May 18, 1970 (death)
Location: Seattle, Washington; Fort Campbell, Kentucky (Army)
Event: School social worker requested funds for a guitar; request denied
Status: Enlisted in U.S. Army on May 31, 1961
- At Horace Mann Elementary in the mid-1950s teachers noted a boy who carried a broom handle like a guitar and a social worker formally petitioned for funds to buy him an instrument.
- His father, Al Hendrix, was absent early, reunited with him in 1945, later struggled with alcohol, and refused to buy him a guitar until mid-1958.
- In 1957 he rescued a one-string ukulele from the trash and taught himself Elvis Presley songs by ear, developing an all-or-nothing relationship with music.
- After a series of cheap guitars-five-dollar acoustic, white Supro Ozark, then a stolen instrument replaced by a red Silvertone Danelectro-he painted “Betty Jean” on the body before leaving it behind.
- Facing two incidents as a passenger in stolen-car cases, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at age eighteen, reporting to Fort Campbell in November 1961.
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