I'm curious? Would you consider "Voodoo Chile(A Slight Return )" by Hendrix a blues or a rock song?

Because it doesn't have the form of the slow jam..so again "I Aint Superstitious" by Wolf might not be seen the same way too...Just wondering? Purists may disagree,but that's what I'm looking for? (I mean it's not "My Train A-Coming"..but hey?)...That emotion..

Yes.

Have a listen to the slower "Voodoo Child". That's blues, man. A little psychedelic in spots, but blues.

Each generation takes the blues somewhere. Robert Johnson was not like Blind Blake. Cab Calloway was not like Robert Johnson. John Lee Hooker was not like Cab Calloway, etc. etc.

Jimi had to know blues to play blues - but he took it where he needed to take it.

A blues song? Yes indeed. Played like Rock -n- Roll? Sure thing.

definately rock. Hendrix was a rocker-after all

Both. Blues/rock.

I think it's a rock song.

Psychedlic Rock with a Blues heritage

If you go back a ways you will find that the blues gave birth to Rock N Roll.

Musicians don't like to be pigeon holed in their music. It's like a charater actor; once you get labled it tends to stick. Hendrix play his own style of music that nobody did before and I wound not want to lable his music as anything by original.

Hendrix's music was a wonderful fusion of blues and rock, that's what made him so great. This is a rock song, but with deep blues roots (sorry I can't give you a definitive answer). So sad that Jimmy died so young (at 26!!!). He would have made so many more great records.

The way Hendrix plays it, it's rock all the way, with a blues roots/influence. Now if you were to have heard someone like B.B. King, or John Lee Hooker interpret the same song in their way, it would be blues. Many blues purists would get irate if someone called Jimi Hendrix 'blues'. But then, many Hendrix fanatics have no problem referring to some of Jimi's songs as 'blues', of which they are not. Blues influenced maybe, but definitely not blues in the pure sense of the word.
Can it be that the blues purists are more in touch with what Jimi's style really is??

It's blues rock, just like much of Led Zeppelin's work.

It's a specific approach where you use a rock like progression, but up by the first five frets with a lot of bends and open strings for that twangy sound.

It's a great sound, and I'm working on being able to produce that type of music myself right now.

The Blues had a baby, and they named that baby Rock and Roll.

it isnt a blues chord progression, but he uses a blues scale in the solos. So its blues/rock but ima say more of a rock song, but most of hendrix stuff is more bluesey.

I would consider the Hendrix version a rock song. Similarly, I would consider the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower" to be a rock song, while Dylan's version is a folk song. Hendrix, to me, turned music into his own type of rock--definitely bluesy roots, but rock nonetheless.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of my favorite guitarists, and his version is rock, as well. I have heard a version of Voodoo Chile done by B.B. King, and his is definitely blues, not rock. I think it has a lot to do with how the artist is interpreting the song.

I have a feeling Cab Calloway could have taken an AC/DC song, and turned it into scat. Think about it for a minute, and I think you will see what I mean. I guess what I am saying is that a true artist takes the raw material, and makes it his or her own, COMPLETELY. So, Hendrix took stuff and made it Hendrix-rock.

Jimi actually was greatly influenced by Buddy Guy, to the point that he would sit at Buddy's shows and tape record the entire concert to be able to hear it again and emulate that blues style. He also lived at Buddy's flat in England and played regularly with the likes of John Mayall and Eric Clapton.

As a blues lover and Jimi Fanatic, I would say that is both Blues and Rock, byt why bother with classification? It was great music!

It is played usuing minor pentatonic & blues scales throughout, and modes that work best over blues chords (ionian). So, at its base, I'd term it blues, but there are not very many "rock" songs that don't utilize this scale and mode. Rock and Blues are almost synonymous

its a rockin blues song. the I-IV-V,type of blues mostly started
with the move into the citys and band playing.out in the country most of the blues players did modal, one chord stuff

I think it's body is rock and its skeleton is blues. It's foundation is blues. You could also say it is "a blues" like rap is technically poetry, by definition.
SRV does a mighty powerful version of VC by the way. I guess it's a combo..

I would call it psychedelic blues.