Dolly Dagger
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| "Dolly Dagger" | ||||
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 1997 reissue single picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Jimi Hendrix | ||||
| from the album Rainbow Bridge | ||||
| B-side | "The Star-Spangled Banner" | |||
| Released | October 1971 | |||
| Recorded | July–August 1970 | |||
| Studio | Electric Lady, New York City | |||
| Genre | Funk rock | |||
| Length | 4:45 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jimi Hendrix | |||
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"Dolly Dagger" is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. On October 9, 1971, it was released on the posthumous album Rainbow Bridge, followed by a single on October 23. Backed with a multi-tracked studio solo rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner", the single peaked at number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the last Hendrix single to appear on the main Billboard chart.[1]
Biographers consider the song to be written about Hendrix's girlfriend Devon Wilson, with the song's name referencing her "concurrent relationship with Mick Jagger".[2] The lyrics "she drinks her blood from a jagged edge" refer to a "party where Mick Jagger cut his finger, Wilson elbowed her way in to suck the blood off as Hendrix watched".[3]
