On Miles Tackett’s The Fool Who Wonders it’s hard to deny the spirit of Jimi Hendrix wafting about, and had Hendrix spent any time surfing the barrels and breaks of Malibu, he may have made an album just like this one. Coated in warm reverb and baked in Southern Cali soulshine, the 11-song set has Tackett performing all but the drums, and bass on three tracks, for a solo entry that trades in his L.A. hip-hop fusion outfit Breakestra for alternatively economical funk and re-imagined psychedelic grooves. This is a flower-power trio record, with upper register, melodically rising falsetto and slinky, shimmering electric lines sharing in a vibe, laid back and concentrated, driving and direct. Ceaselessly assertive, never lingering in indulgence, Tackett is equally capable of taking his time on compositions that beg for an open stretch of coast highway and a vanishing sun, as on “Come Away,” or tipping his hat to the second-line shuffle of his father’s Little Feat as on “Out in the Canyon.” The quiet moments move, as well, his acoustic “Golden Child, Honey Child” lying in gentle wait before resuming the whammy-bar bends of “Everbody’s Been Burned.” Standing contemplative on the album’s cover, in the foreground and staring away from the downtown skyscrapers looming in City of Angels’ haze, Miles Tackett and guitar have taken their blues-soaked manifest destiny to the shore.