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One Rainy Wish
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Wikipedia article
"'One Rainy Wish'" (also known as "Golden Rose") is a song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1967 second album 'Axis: Bold as Love'. The song was written by Jimi Hendrix based on a dream that he had in which "the sky was filled with a thousand stars ... and eleven moons played across the rainbows," according to the song's lyrics. Shortly after the release of 'Axis: Bold as Love', "One Rainy Wish" was featured as the B-side to "Up from the Skies", released in February 1968.
Background and style
"One Rainy Wish" was "one of Jimi [Hendrix]'s many songs born out of a dream". The style of guitar playing displayed by Hendrix is said to be reminiscent of that of American jazz guitarists Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery, according to fellow guitarist Mike Stern, who said the following about the song:
In the Hendrix biography 'Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy', the song is described as "creak[ing] with radical harmonies and rhythmic concepts, not least the fact that the verse is in 3/4 time while the chorus is in 4/4." "One Rainy Wish" was recorded sometime midway through the 'Axis: Bold as Love' sessions, in October 1967, at Olympic Sound Studios with producer Chas Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer.
Reception
In reviews of 'Axis: Bold as Love', "One Rainy Wish" has generally been positively regarded, although some critics do not like the ending. In a review for the BBC, critic Chris Jones noted the song as one of the album's examples of Hendrix's "loveliest lyrics," while critic Cub Koda described the song as a "beautiful, wistful ballad."
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Category:1967 songs
Category:The Jimi Hendrix Experience songs
Category:Songs written by Jimi Hendrix
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