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Im guessing you are going for the Leaves, but could also be The Byrds. interesting story behind this song. from AMG

"AMG REVIEW: Whether a turn-of-the-century tale of infidelity avenged or a far more recent parody of same, "Hey Joe" proved one of the most enduring standards of the '60s for West Coast acts including Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, the Leaves, Love, Cher, Johnny Rivers, the Standells, the Shadows of Knight, and the Music Machine. In fact, artists from all over America and Britain tried the song on for size as well, including Wilson Pickett, Tim Rose, the Creation, Deep Purple, the Cryan Shames, Willy Deville, and, later, Nick Cave, Ice Cube, and the Make-Up. Though his wasn't the first version — or even the first to become a hit — Hendrix's became the definitive reading, as heard on his debut single and the opener on his first LP, 1967's Are You Experienced?
The main figure in the authorship question regarding "Hey Joe" is Dino Valenti (born Chester Powers and also known as Jesse Oris Farrow). Valenti, the composer of "Get Together" by the Youngbloods and a peripheral West Coast name throughout the '60s, appeared in the original lineup of Quicksilver Messenger Service during 1964, but was jailed for a drug bust before recording with them. Later, he lived on a houseboat with notorious drug buddy David Crosby of the Byrds, and there introduced him to "Hey Joe." He also copyrighted the song under his given name, Chester Powers. Apparently, it was written — or possibly, just arranged from an earlier traditional song — by Billy Roberts, a West Coast folksinger of undiscovered vintage, and scholars have suggested that Valenti legally bought the song from Roberts. As Lester Bangs summarized the situation, "There was this song called 'Hey Joe' that everybody and his fuckin' brother not only recorded but claimed to have written, even though it was obviously the psychedelic mutation of some hoary old folk song which was about murderin' somebody for love, just like nine-tenths of the rest of them hoary folk ballads."

Crosby liked the song, began playing it at Byrds shows during 1965, and intended to eventually record it on one of the band's albums. John Beck of the Leaves also heard the song, and also wanted to record it with his band. Reportedly, he asked Byrds manager Jim Dickson for permission to record the song, and permission was granted — though Dickson later denied that he even replied to the request. In any case, the Leaves released "Hey Joe" in November 1965, but were unhappy with the results. After another version of the song failed, the Leaves tried it one more time with added fuzztone guitar, and watched the single become a regional hit. It finally made the Top 40 in June 1966, and one month later, the Byrds' version surfaced on their third album, Fifth Dimension. Both Love and the Shadows of Knight also recorded their versions of the song by the spring of 1966.

On October 23, 1966, three weeks after the Jimi Hendrix Experience formed, the trio entered the studio for the first time. Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell recorded a song that manager Chas Chandler heard Hendrix playing in New York, a slowed-down version of the hit making waves for the Leaves in America. Though singer/songwriter Tim Rose deserves credit for being the first to divert from the fast-paced garage reading of the song, Hendrix made it his own as soon as his single was released (according to Mitchell, the first version recorded was the one used for the master). With Mitchell's lone snares sounding like shots from a gun, and Redding's walking bass echoing the on-the-move nature of the song, Hendrix delivers the vocal (one of his first, after a long history of backup roles) with a fitting type of careless unease. Though he stretches out the first few words of his lines (each one begins with the exclamation "Hey Joe"), on the ends Hendrix's voice explodes into deeper meaning at the end of lines: "Where you going with that gun in your hand?" His guitar solos are blistering, though restrained within the mid-tempo rhythm until after the lyric is finished — "I'm heading way down South where I can be free/I'm heading Mexico way, no hangman's about to put a leash around me" — when he really lets loose. Pitched to Britain's freer, more receptive singles market, "Hey Joe" rose into the Top Ten in early 1967, the dawn of a new era of guitar experimentation and psychedelic blues. — John Bush"

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