Let's Go Get Em' by John Sinclair and his International Blues Scholars

Описание: Let's Go Get Em'

(Taken from the album 'Let's Go Get Em' by John Sinclair and his International Blues Scholars.)

John Sinclair: Vocals (Words by David Sinclair: Pontiac Speech to the White Man)
Leslie Lopez: Bass
Vicente Pino: Guitar
Tom Worrel: Keys
Steven 'Flyagaric23' Pratt: Drums

Frenchy, CHU and Celia Sinclair: Album painting, Artwork, Sleeve design.

Even though he is an expatriate, John Sinclair should be declared a national treasure. He's a poet, historian and musicologist who, instead of publishing his research and findings, declaims them in the oral tradition with music. His latest works revisits themes he has worked with before and also adds several new poems and interpretations to his work. Let's Go Get 'Em features odes to friends and loved ones, whether it is remembering an evening with a lover who whistles Charles Mingus' "Moanin'" or professing thanks and love to another with a reference to the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four." There are also several political pieces here, including his reworking of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' United Nations' speech "Smells like Sulfur." The music has a great groove that simmers and occasionally boils over, whether in the acid rock taste of "Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky" or the deep mellow spice of his dedication to Mardi Gras Indians, "We Love Big Chief."

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