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I did not know back then when I stopped by Woodstock on my Honda Scrambler after a Martha’s Vineyard summer that my one relative (John Hewitt) had wrote a Star Spangled Banner setting. Maybe it was in my genes to hear Hendrix play another setting of the Star Spangled Banner?