John Trudell - AKA Grafitti Man
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Artist: John TrudellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-04-17
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Rockin The Res
- Grafitti Man
- Restless Situations
- Wildfires
- Baby Boom Che
- Bombs Over Baghdad
- Rich Man's War
- Somebody's Kid
- Never Never Blues
- What He'd Done
- Beauty In A Fade
- Tina Smiled
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Free Music Review: Poetry+Passion+Politics+Rock 'N' Roll=Compelling Listening
Hit: 5 Stars
John Trudell's music is difficult to categorize. The lyrics are spoken rather than sung, but they are integrated into the music so that they have the feel of songs rather than poems set to music. The musical backing is tough, spare, gritty alt-rock. Trudell's spoken vocals are never less than compelling, and on a few cuts there are choruses sung by members of his band. The main appeal though is clearly the lyrical content. Trudell is an extremely smart, articulate, radical Native-American activist, and his songs lash out at various targets - corporate greed, political corruption, middle-class complacency, sexism, militarism, etc., seldom failing to hit their mark. The stand-out track is "Bombs Over Baghdad", a searing condemnation of the 1992 war with Iraq set to a propulsive rock beat, and listening to it today (October 2002), one cannot help but think that it is even more true now than then. Sample lyric: "New world order is an old world lie. Fighting for peace, see how they die. Dragging in God, as they turn violent. God says nothing, he just remains silent." I also really like "Baby Boom Che", which is about how Elvis Presley first began (unwittingly) to sow seeds of counter-culturalism in the 50's. John Trudell's music will appeal to those who are pre-disposed to respond to his politically-left point of view, to those with a particular interest in Native American culture, and to those who enjoy literate, passionate rock 'n' roll. I'd think that fans of New York junkie poet/rocker Jim Carroll would be likely to like Trudell, as these two artists are actually very similar, although their lyrical concerns are worlds apart.
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