know, we revere Jimi for his guitar playing, but we don't focus on other aspects, like his singing and certainly his lyric writing. "I'll share a little story about his singing. Jimi never thought he was much of a singer. My dad could be brutally honest. He would say, 'You can't sing' -- and my dad was a decent singer. My dad's idea of singing and what Jimi was doing were two different things. He used to say, 'You can't sing, so it's good you can play guitar.' He was very supportive of him in the guitar arena, but he was just being honest. "But when Jimi was going to England, he was all excited, telling my dad, 'They're putting this group behind me, I'm off to the big time, I'm going to change the spelling of my name to Jimi, and guess what... they want me to sing!' My dad was like, 'Oh, sheesh! Goodness.' [Laughs] But Jimi said, 'They're all hollering out here, so I'm just gonna holler like the rest of them.' "As far as his lyrics go, no one really knows that he wrote 110 songs -- more than that, because we unearthed some unpublished songs. We don't even have the music to those; they're just words." What kind of imagery is in these unpublished songs? What kinds of stories was he weaving? "They're very similar to how he is in his thinking. They're timeless. It's about times of then, times of yesteryear, times of the