Shiner, Lewis. "Voodoo Child"
Divergence: 1970 CE
What if: Jimi Hendrix did not accidentally overdose on sleeping pills.
Summary: A man from 1989 tries to keep Hendrix alive so that he may produce "Last Rays of the Rising Sun".
Comments: The story in ASF is seemingly alternate history, but when it is considered within the context of being a section of the novel Glimpses, it is not.
Published: In Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1993; and Glimpses, Morrow 1993 (0688124119), Avon/AvoNova 1995 (0380723646).
— Glimpses posted on-line on the author's website, Fiction Liberation Front, Aug. 29, 2010.
Web link: Fiction Liberation Front