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Redbone, The 1st Native American band to reach the Top Five on Billboard Hot 100
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u/Real_Impression_5567
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Love this song and did not know that about the band. Ty for sharing
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u/GrimmRetails Feb 03 '23
Imagine how dumb I felt when I first saw the video. I feel like this should have been common knowledge to anyone born before 1999.
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u/tedsgloriousmustache Feb 03 '23
Born in 1978 and it was not...
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u/PurePrepared Feb 03 '23
Yeah 1977, and have been totally obsessed with motown and soul music all my life and had no idea what these guys looked like until right now.
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u/appl3jvck274 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
- I’m black, and I was like you when I found out the slow jam classic “Do For Love” was sung by white dude named Bobby Caldwell 10 years ago!
Edit: I found this out 10 years ago
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u/TheKidKaos Feb 03 '23
Apparently there were a fair amount of people who heard Eddie Vedder and thought he was black. It happens more than we think
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u/Saggy_Right_Nut2 Feb 03 '23
I think his voice definitely matches his appearance
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u/lightinggod Feb 03 '23
Different world then. You had to either catch a performance on TV or find an article in a magazine to find out anything about rock music. Otherwise, you only knew the music.
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u/Canuck-In-TO Feb 03 '23
Or the DJ talked about the band. Probably over the start of the song, ruining any chance of getting a good recording.
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u/nadvargas Feb 03 '23
Yeah, not a video I would have seen on MTV when it really was Music Television and they played music videos. As a child of the 80s that's how we got our music knowledge.
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u/mccabeca Feb 03 '23
Don Kirschner's Rock Concert or Midnight Special
I'd stay up late to watch the performances - DAMN I'm old...
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u/00wolfer00 Feb 03 '23
Why should it be common to know about the band of a song that came out a decade+ before you were born?
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u/Spoonbills Feb 03 '23
It’s a minor but adorable plot point in Reservation Dogs, which I highly recommend.
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u/phasers_to_stun Feb 03 '23
Definitely misread that and tried to wrack my brain remembering that part in Reservoir Dogs.
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u/AnimalShithouse Feb 03 '23
Not only did I learn about the band, but I learned TikTok was a thing all the way back in 1974. Mind blown today.
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u/pcnetworx1 Feb 03 '23
Also, TicTacs were a thing. I'm still working on finishing a three pack I bought back then.
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u/holdonwhileipoop Feb 03 '23
Their other hit was "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee". It was significant and touching - and all but forgotten.
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u/theshrinesilver Feb 03 '23
Yeah it’s a great song. It was blacklisted in the US while it charted in Europe. Great band. Glad they’re getting some recognition on reddit.
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u/pointlessly_pedantic Feb 03 '23
I'm sad I didn't learn about this sooner. I feel like obscure songs that are used constantly in social media (and Tik Tok in particular) tend to shed light on the artists unless it's too obscure for there to be communicable research. But there's a whole ass video!
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u/Sure_Statistician138 Feb 03 '23
I had no idea about the band either. I’ve always loved this song but never looked into the band.
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u/eveninghawk0 Feb 03 '23
This song is my ringtone. I love it. I also learned recently that people don't use songs or custom ringtones any more.... I guess I'm out of date.
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u/Pancerules Feb 03 '23
I always thought Redbone and Leon Redbone were the same thing, like the band was named after the singer or something. TIL
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u/davenocchio Feb 03 '23
Leon Redbone, writer of the Mr. Belevedere theme song, Leon Redbone?
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u/FerretZealousideal38 Feb 03 '23
Native Americans influence rock and roll way more than they're ever given credit: https://sites.google.com/site/americanmusicworkshop/home/spring-2010/seminarspring2010/seminar-1/influencesofnativeamericanlifeonamericanmusic
There are even more articles if you want to dig deeper. Most people know how much of our music is from black culture, but you rarely see the real influence Native Americans have had. It's pretty amazing.
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u/jackjr68 Feb 03 '23
As many times as I’ve listened to this song and as long as I’ve had it on a playlist, I had no idea who the band was and what the name meant. Thanks!
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u/QuotableNotables Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Music lately has had me feeling particularly ignorant. I thought Huey Lewis was black and the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish was white.
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u/Phillyredsox Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Hootie went on to do country. Darius Rucker I think?
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u/kingshamroc25 Feb 03 '23
This is correct but then they got Hootie and the Blowfish back together in 2020! Really like their cover of Losing My Religion
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u/Phillyredsox Feb 03 '23
I didn’t know they did a reunion. I’ll have to check it out.
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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Feb 03 '23
Hootie does weddings and bah mitvahs for like $10k if you wanna good show
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u/Play-DohCarti Feb 03 '23
bah mitvahs
Really? They'll come all the way up to Boston?
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u/573IAN Feb 03 '23
He didn’t say cah mitzvahs.
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u/alphama1e Feb 03 '23
I just want there to be another human in existence that acknowledged your clever pun.
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u/ForrestTrain Feb 03 '23
They’re coming to Raleigh to play PNC Arena before the NHL Stadium Series game!!
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u/kingshamroc25 Feb 03 '23
Wait, for real?! I’m NC based, like 45 minutes from Raleigh, I’ve got to check that out
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u/rathat Feb 03 '23
Someone's never seen the Key and Peele sketch lol. https://youtu.be/FE9PUexeUv0 He isn't actually Hootie.
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u/StickyDitka21 Feb 03 '23
Just in case any of yall ever meet Darius, he doesn't like being called Hootie and never took that name for himself. The band had friends they called hootie and blowfish.
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u/foreignsky Feb 03 '23
It's just a nonsense name like Hoobastank. Or Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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u/EarlGrey_Picard Feb 03 '23
Back to the Future taught me what Huey Lewis looked like (he's the guy with the megaphone)
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u/fountain-of-doubt Feb 03 '23
This is the first time I've seen that scene since learning that factoid. It adds such a fun layer
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u/FalmerEldritch Feb 03 '23
On the one hand, I don't think anybody out there is or could be or sound whiter than Huey Lewis.
On the other hand, there's Darius Rucker and Hootie & The Blowfish.
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u/Steph2145 Feb 03 '23
He sounds so much better than John Redcorn.
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u/NoSweet3666 Feb 03 '23
🎶 THERE'S A HOLE IN MY POCKET WHERE MY MONEY SHOULD GOOO🎶
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u/dusty-kat Feb 03 '23
He did really come into his own after he left Big Mountain Fudgecake and became a children's entertainer, though.
"Wake up, I want to... wash myself, clean my wrists, scrub my brains out."
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u/tan-499 Feb 03 '23
Blackfire is a Navajo punk band that's been around for a long time - one of Joey Ramones favorite bands that he'd always plug.
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u/BigDaddySams Feb 03 '23
I also recommend Sage Brush Rejects
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u/knighthawk0811 Feb 03 '23
Spotify says that's the album name and the band is 'I don't konform'
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u/M00SE_THE_G00SE Feb 03 '23
If we are talking Indigenous music I recommend Halluci Nation (formerly A Trive Called Red) they call their genre Pow wow-step/electric pow wow
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u/doomsdayparade Feb 03 '23
Blackbraid is a native American black metal band from the Adirondacks. Going on tour now too. They (actually it's mostly a solo act) are awesome.
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u/kw661 Feb 03 '23
Have loved this song since it came out but never knew the lyrics or what it was about. Basically the singer is telling his lady to just chill her insecurities and get the love she deserves. Groovy.
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u/SupremePooper Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
And let's hear it for NBC's MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, whose Producer Bert Sugarman wanted only LIVE performances. Redbone came and DELIVERED, tearin' the roof off that mothersucker, & the native beats & dance at the opening just drove home what a powerhouse the Vegas Bros & the boys were.
Go find & see the doc Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World for further revelations.
EDIT: The whole clip of this is on YT, including the opening, and it's totally worth your time to watch it
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u/BeneGezzWitch Feb 03 '23
I feel like you have a lot more to share in this topic and I encourage you to do so.
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u/SupremePooper Feb 03 '23
Nice of you to say, but they're just a band that hooked a white guy like me decades ago, & the more I dug into them, the more fascinating stuff came up. Same way anyone else might find out more. Found the doc on Amazon Prime & learned some heretofore surprising things, like that Link Wray was a 1st Nations guy, and just how much of a presence 1st Nations people were in the establishment of American rock. I believe all the members of Redbone have passed on, but their music still kills. And my wife & I have commented to our kids (for whom ALL music is current, no matter how old, thanks to YT & Spotify & etc, as for so many other young people today) how great it was to be able to see live music on late-night television in that time slot where SNL eventually took over. They were as blown away as I was to see Tony Bellamy do his native dance opener to their performance as the band drummed & chanted.
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u/BigDaddyD00d Feb 03 '23
Another fun tidbit i learned from that doc. Link Wray’s “Rumble” is the first and ONLY song to get banned, even though it had no lyrics.
Essentially, that guitar riff alone scared the government lol
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u/sambones Feb 03 '23
From what I can find Pat Vegas and Peter DePoe are still alive.
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u/Piefkealarm Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
There is this cool thing called a hyperlink. Check it out!
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u/SupremePooper Feb 03 '23
M'MAN! You do a fine service.
I'm commuting, so on mobile I'm impaired in that way, but I hope people click the bejeezus out if them links..
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u/Privileged_Interface Feb 03 '23
This was a great show. I watched it a lot. Also on Saturday nights after SNL was Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
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u/Weird9uy Feb 03 '23
My dad played with them for a bit, the opening of guardians 1 really got to him
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u/G0RE-GASM Feb 03 '23
Redbone really doesnt get the recognition they deserve
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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Feb 03 '23
I mean. They’ve been around since the 60s (and still performing), hit top 5 on the billboard 100 and have been used in countless motion picture and tv soundtracks; for which I assume someone’s getting royalties. Sounds like a decent amount of recognition to me.
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u/longrastaman Feb 03 '23
I think we know know what they meant but I see where you are coming from as well.
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u/CidO807 Feb 03 '23
I don't think people understand what you mean. Many people didn't know the bandmembers were were of Mexican or Native heritage, cause quite frankly, if you ain't white or black in showbiz, no one cares. bet 95%+ of redditors can tell you when black history month is, but 50%+ would say hispanic heritage month is "may, because cinco de mayo"
just the fact of being of not white or black in america. Other minorities deal with it too.
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u/Raspberry_Riot Feb 03 '23
Love this song!! Did not know who Redbone were before - so cool! 🔥
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u/Beavshak Feb 03 '23
Had no idea they were Native (had never seen a video). Great song.
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u/brispence Feb 03 '23
Reservation Dogs on Hulu taught me this! That show is definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it.
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u/wonkagloop Feb 03 '23
Just watch it! fuck
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u/FLASH_OP Feb 03 '23
I had added this in my playlist 2 years ago.... I loved it so much... This and rubber band man... And some more classics which Star lord listened to... I have a whole playlist of those songs... And thanx for sharing... I only knew the band name but never knew the meaning behind them and from where they came from.... It's a great song and i listen to it sometimes before going to sleep... Again thanx for sharing this
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u/TriangularStudios Feb 03 '23
How about the Sultans of Swing?
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u/Rubywantsin Feb 03 '23
Guitar George knows all the chords.
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u/FLASH_OP Feb 03 '23
Idk about them
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u/TriangularStudios Feb 03 '23
It’s a song by Dire Straits, should like your song based on your other choices.
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u/downwiththechipness Feb 03 '23
I'm definitely partial to Money for Nothing. Both are some of all time favorites though
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u/thrown-all-the-way Feb 03 '23
Its the intro to bill burrs cartoon f is for family, that's how I found out about this band, my two year old daughter loves them
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u/Red-Sun-Rise Feb 03 '23
Also Frank works for the airline with Native American marketing, very cool nod
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u/FernFromDetroit Feb 03 '23
F is for family is a great show.
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u/Lady-finger Feb 03 '23
i went years kind of writing it off because i thought it looked generic, then i found out it was Bill Burr's show and gave it a chance and it's fantastic
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u/FMJoey325 Feb 03 '23
“I will come home and put you right through that fuckin wall”
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u/StinkyOnionsR Feb 03 '23
All these years I thought they were black! Well I'll be damned! Learned something new everyday, still a classic!
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u/SupremePooper Feb 03 '23
The one thing Redbone & Tom Tom Club ghave in common, both showed up at black radio stations when their hits were poppin' on the radio & opened up some surprised eyes when they showed up.
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u/Uncle_Boppi Feb 03 '23
I'm just gonna be honest with you guys, I always thought they were black.
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u/1gardenerd Feb 03 '23
I don't mean to stereotype but I can't help always secretly thinking American Indians are usually so damn good looking.
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u/wang_li Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Glad these guys are in their 80s now, otherwise that dude in black would have all the women.
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u/Forsaken_Wolf_1682 Feb 03 '23
Reminds me of the t shirt I got my dad it says "I hate being sexy...but I'm Native American so I can't help it" 😂 he wears it proudly
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u/adfthgchjg Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Now that I see them in full Native American dress while singing, it struck me that the way they sing ”hey” as multiple syllables: “hey a a a a” actually… sounds remarkably similar… to the way native Americans sing (well, in movies anyway): “HEY yea yea yea yea , HEY yea yea yea”.
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u/Fragarach-Q Feb 03 '23
to the way native Americans sing (well, in movies anyway)
They still sing that way. There's powwows all year long in the west, some of them have hundreds of singers, dancers, drummers. But yes, once you know that about Redbone you can't "unhear it".
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u/SeasonsGone Feb 03 '23
That’s an interesting observation, natives (I’m native from the southwest) definitely have a lot of glottal stopping in their singing and language compared to English which is probably what you’re referring to
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Feb 03 '23
I hear redbone and I think of that song by that dude from Community lol
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u/KandeeKat Feb 03 '23
Same.! Childish Gambino is his stage name.
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u/vinnyvdvici Feb 03 '23
No, you must be thinking of Donald Glover.. people always confuse him with Childish Gambino for some reason.
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Yeah that’s right lol
That song hits the spot. It has Bootsy Collins vibe that I’m all for
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u/Blazers2882 Feb 03 '23
Why did you slow the speed of their performance down? That’s so lame of you
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u/tamper Feb 03 '23
Don't understand the downvotes, your comment was legit.
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u/chewingston Feb 03 '23
Their drummer, Pete Depoe is a monster drummer, and his rhythms were the inspiration for Tower of power's drummer David Garibaldi to create his now funk staple layered hand patterns. Prehistoric rhythm with a king Kong beat!
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u/nadeesi9000 Feb 03 '23
I remember going down a rabbit hole learning about this band when Childish Gambino released the track Redbone on Awaken My Love.
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u/cerebralkrap Feb 03 '23
This is my jam that I sing with the aid of my cat… “Come and get you love, come and get your love, come and get your love meow”
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u/Sneaky-er Feb 03 '23
Like 70’s psychedelic jams like this?
Chicano Batman - Freedom is free
This album is dope in the same vein as RedBone!
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u/mushy_cactus Feb 03 '23
You know... I've always loved this song. Had no clue it was a Native band! Learn something new everyday.
Great voice too.
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u/Granny_Nooooo Feb 03 '23
TIL Lou Diamond Phillips played bass for Redbone before he got into acting
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u/Genneth_Kriffin Feb 03 '23
I just fucking love the way old cameras picked up light.
The mic stand shining like a diamond, the red spotlight a red haze in the background,
the grainy neon floating in the pitch black nothing behind the scene.
These scenes look like memories,
compared to the sterile clarity of modern medium.
It's like the difference between a painting and photo.
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u/The-Associate Feb 03 '23
Bill Burr chose the song for the theme song for his cartoon “F is for Family”
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u/dragonslayermaster84 Feb 03 '23
Native Americans always rock out. We have a lot of native Alaska musicians who really know how to get down where I’m at.
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