Redbone - The Very Best Of Redbone (1991) [FLAC]

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Redbone - The Very Best Of Redbone (1991) [FLAC]
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Technical Information
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Artist...............: Redbone
Album................: The Very Best Of Redbone
Year.................: 1991
Genre................: Rock
Type.................: Studio
Duration.............: 1:05:52
Number of Songs......: 20
Artwork..............: Included

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: dBpowerAMP 15.1
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.3.0 (Level 5)
Hz...................: 44,100
Channels.............: Stereo
Reader...............: LiteOn iHAS524
Source...............: CD (Not my rip)


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General Information (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Redbone is a Native American/Latin American rock group originated in the 1970s from brothers Pat
and Lolly Vegas. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with their
#1 hit single, "Come and Get Your Love". The single went certified Gold selling over a million
copies!

Redbone achieved hits with their singles "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" and "Maggie" predominately
overseas. Winning many awards, their legendary movement still remains strong.

Redbone is known and accredited in the NY Smithsonian as the first Native American rock group to
have a #1 single internationally and in the US!

*NOTES*

Despite all its praise, Wikepedia cheekily ommits the fact that Rebone's biggest hit worldwide,
the 1973 cut "We Were All Wounded, At Wounded Knee" was banned from US airplay (and still is
until this day) out of supposed fear the lyrics might instigate "unrest" amongst the natives.

In reality, all the song does is make people remember a feat largely stricken from US history,
namely the massacre (neatly called "battle" in US history books) killing 297 Native Americans (90
men, 200 women and children, 7 critically injured who died later) at Wounded Knee (by, among
others, what was left of the 7th Cavalry after Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn) in the Lakota
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in December 1890.

For those wanting to know more, get the Dee Brown book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee".

Not my intention to make any kind of political statement here, just the long way to tell you
the song "We Were All Wounded, At Wounded Knee" is included here on this German pressing while
it is not on the US pressing and why the latter is so...

Enjoy!

JJ

Band:
Lolly Vegas: Guitars, vocals (Died 2010)
Tony Bellamy: Guitars, vocals (Died 2009)
Peter DePoe: Drums, percussion
Butch Rillera: Drums, percussion


Tracklist:

01) "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" - 2:44
02) "Come and Get Your Love" - 4:56
03) "Wovoka" - 2:59
04) "Niki Hokey" - 3:14
05) "The Sun Never Shines on the Lonely" - 2:32
06) "Niji Trance" - 3:22
07) "Fais-Do" - 2:33
08) "Maggie" - 5:06
09) "Poison Ivy" - 3:02
10) "Only You and Rock and Roll" - 3:00
11) "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" - 3:29
12) "Chant: 13th Hour" 5:35
13) "When You Got Trouble" - 3:23
14) "Light as a Feather" - 1:53
15) "Suzi Girl" - 2:53
16) "Power (Prelude to a Means)" - 4:15
17) "Tennessee Girl" - 2:19
18) "Message from a Drum" - 3:02
19) "One More Time" - 2:55
20) "Alcatraz" - 2:33

Time: 1:05:52