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She Comes In Colors (Original Post) Cosmo Blues Oct 2021 OP
Here's "She Comes in Colors" by Love. argyl Oct 2021 #1
I had that album Cosmo Blues Oct 2021 #2

argyl

(3,064 posts)
1. Here's "She Comes in Colors" by Love.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 09:58 PM
Oct 2021




One of the many outstanding LA mid/late bands. The singer Arthur Lee wrote it. Lee was a black man and Hendrix was impressed by him, not just his work but it gave him hope that a black man could make it in rock.

Cosmo Blues

(2,484 posts)
2. I had that album
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 09:12 AM
Oct 2021

My favorite on it was Orange Skies named after the beloved orange sunshine no doubt, I do realize now it sounds a little bubblegum. Lee was also quoted as saying he met Hendricks in a recording studio where someone was recording one of his songs, and said it was the first time Hendrix was in a recording studio which wasn't true because he'd already recorded with the Isley Brothers, so don't believe everything you read, especially because there was Chuck Berry and Little Richard and more

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