1. |
Sendin' The Vipers
04:16
|
|||
|
"Sendin' The Vipers"
Way back in the day
when marijuana was something
people smoked in Mexico
or Mexicans brought with them
to the United States
& smoked quietly amongst themselves
there were musicians
in New Orleans & Los Angeles & Chicago
who were introduced to weed
by their Mexican friends
& began to apply its magical properties
to the shaping of the new music
just then beginning to emerge
from deep within
the hearts & minds
of a new generation of Americans
born after the Emancipation
of the slaves
& on or around
the turning
of a new century
propelled by electricity
& charged with the promise
of a wild new kind of individual freedom—
Way back in the day
when the music that would be called jazz first issued forth
from the trumpets & drums
of musicians in New Orleans
who knew how to make people dance
& took the music with them
to Los Angeles in 1912
& Chicago a couple of years later
& Joe "King" Oliver & his Creole Jazz Band
came up from New Orleans
to pack the cabarets & nightclubs
of the South Side
with the sound of jazz
& set the tempo
for the development of the music
for everyone
who followed them
& in 1922
Joe Oliver called up Louis Armstrong
to join him in Chicago
& set the whole world on fire
with their brilliant improvisations
& the unbridled power of swing
—November 1998
|
||||
2. |
Really The Blues
06:51
|
|||
3. |
||||
4. |
||||
5. |
Everybody Loves My Baby
08:02
|
|||
6. |
If You'se A Viper
08:03
|
|||
7. |
||||
8. |
Tin Roof Blues
10:06
|
|||
9. |
||||
10. |
Chant Of The Weed
04:26
|
|||
John Sinclair Detroit, Michigan
"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist
White Panther Party"
daily.bandcamp.com/features/beatnik-youth-interview
"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.
--Amiri Baraka.
... more
John Sinclair recommends:
Mobile Homeland
by John Sinclair
John Sinclair with a Detroit All-Star line up.
go to album
MONK’S DREAM JOHN SINCLAIR & PLANET D NONET
by Planet D Nonet wsg John Sinclair
John live with The Planet D Nonet playing Thelonious Monk.
go to album
John Sinclair And Youth change the musical landscape.
go to albumIf you like Viper Madness, you may also like:
Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
go to album
A concept record about coming-of-age gleefully grifts from all types of rock music, from garage to glam to power pop.
go to album
Inspired by their travels in New Orleans, Naples, and the UK, the “Italian-hills country blues” duo pen a global love letter to roots music.
go to album
