Cover Tunes- Kronos Quartet - Purple Haze

I think the Kronos Quartet is great I’m embarrassingly not overly well versed in their work outside of knowing quite a bit about their career and the Nuevo disc. Perhaps a deep dive is needed some day Their career is so vast, you should just go lot their Wikipedia page, but I will try. So here goes, I think the Kronos Quartet are probably the musical act that would be the best entry into classical music from a rock fan’s ears. (I could surely be forgetting someone and Frank Zappa probably had that title before he passed, but that feels like a proper statement. They have worked with some of the biggest modern classical names- Part, Gorecki, Reich, Glass, Riley and the aforementioned Zappa. They have recorded with a who’s who of music- Cafe Tacuba, Pat Metheny, Asha Boshle, Taraf de Haidouks, Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, Amon Tobin, Faith No More, Joan Armatrading and The Tiger Lillies. They have performed live with McCartney, Bowie, Waits, Bjork, the National, and Allen Ginsberg. I would have to say their biggest commercial moment that I can recall was the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. In 1986, they recorded their self titled album for Nonesuch Records and ended it with a cover of Purple Haze. I think most everyone would agree that it’s a fitting tribute to someone who was really a great American composer. I do see the comments on the YouTube page and it’s not perfect - you have to make room for Mitchell and Redding’s contributions, too but it’s pretty fun. 1986 - Nonesuch