"Angel" is a song by American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 1971 posthumous studio album The Cry of Love. Written and self-produced by Hendrix, the song was recorded for the guitarist's unreleased fourth studio album just months before he died in September 1970, and was later released as the lead single from his first posthumous studio album in the United Kingdom.

Despite its late entry into the musician's catalog, the song "Angel" dates back to relatively early in Jimi Hendrix's career, when the music was first recorded under the name "Little Wing" in a session involving Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell at Olympic Studios in October 1967. Later in the year the song took on its own identity, with an initial demo recorded under the title "Sweet Angel" in November 1967 at the London studio. The song's lyrics were written in early 1968, as evidenced by handwritten lyrics marking the song as complete by January 14 that year, which also gave the song a full title of "My Angel Catherina (Return of Little Wing)" giving more weight to its comparison with the Axis: Bold as Love track. A solo demo was also recorded in March 1968, and released as part of unofficial bootleg Acoustic Jams and on the companion disc to 1995 book Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix.

After delaying progress on the song for over two years, Hendrix returned to work on "Angel" with Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox in July 1970, during sessions for his planned fourth studio album; the master recording was produced at Electric Lady Studios on July 23, the last of seven takes, and the overdubbing and mixing were completed on August 20 and 21 amongst various other tracks which were ultimately released posthumously. As with the majority of material recorded during this period, "Angel" was produced by Hendrix and engineered by Eddie Kramer.

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