WILDSANG
SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH
© 2003 Hillary Kay (829757230726)
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WILDSANG speaks the truth of the blues from the core of the cellular memory of the American Experience & delivers songs chock full of almost all the sweat, grit, tragedy, desperation, bare truth, deep love & sacrifice you can squeeze out of the blues.
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- 1 Knockin'
- 2 Josie
- 3 Biscuits
- 4 Ain't No Strange Fruit
- 5 Well Without Water
- 6 My Baby
- 7 Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
- 8 Spoonful - Willie Dixon
- 9 Baby Tight
- 10 Jump Down Mama
- 11 Big Top Circus
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SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH, 2003
WILDSANG Music
*Independent Music Awards - "JOSIE" - BEST BLUES SONG 2005 FINALIST.
*Pasatiempo's BEST NEW MEXICO BLUES ALBUM - "SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH" - 2003.
Currently based in California, award winning blues duo WILDSANG makes a ton of sound for two people. They are a trip back in time from 2005 to the early years of blues. Soaring harp. Crying slide guitar. Scorching vocals. Real emotion. This is the Real Deal. It is also an answer to the old time male blues singers. It is feminist blues. Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton would be proud.
Hillary Kay's roots are buried deep in the black musical tradition. Joe "King" Oliver (and his Creole Jazz Band), one of the originators of jazz music & Louis Armstrong's mentor, is her great uncle and classical composer Ulysses Kay is her father. Hillary grew up on the hip of her mother - Freedom Rider Barbara Kay - who marched side by side with Dr. King and was arrested and imprisoned in Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary in the fight for voting rights and racial equality. It was the Freedom Songs that fueled the spirits of the protestors through their trials in the jails, and this same spirit lives on in Hillary's voice and music. Hillary has performed as a solo artist in colleges and clubs up and down the east and west US coasts, as well as in Rome Italy. She has also worked with various great musicians, including Blues guitarist Corey Harris, Reggae artist Annette Brissette & Sistrens, Bev Grant & the Human Condition, Ubaka Hill & the Shapeshifters, Sophie B.Hawkins, Gwen Avery, Maxine Feldman, Suhir Blackeagle, Suzanne Shanbaum from Berkeley Women's music Collective and Canadian artist Lucy Blue Tremblay. Inspired by the music of Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, Big Momma Thornton, Robert Johnson and Son House, Hillary acquired a resonator guitar and embarked on a trip into the deep blues. She is still on what has become a life journey.
Kate Freeman fell in love with the blues the moment she heard Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Momma Thornton in 1964. Next, she picked up a $2.00 Hohner Blues Harp and never put it down. Shortly thereafter, the richness and spirit of the music from the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina's Piedmont Plateau got under Kate's skin and there began a lifetime love affair with the blues. A San Francisco native, Kate was surrounded by the musical greats of the Sixties. At any given time you could be jammin' or hangin' with The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin & Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield, or Moby Grape. You never knew who would be around the corner and music and magic were definitely alive and well. Kate dedicated her life to the blues over thirty-five years ago and this dedication has never wavered. After performing together, "FANG", aka Tom Byrd Hoskins - the man who discovered Mississippi John Hurt - said of Kate Freeman "you're the finest harmonica player I've ever heard". Humbling praise that moves one to strive for excellence.
WILDSANG has shared the stage with, Taj Mahal, Ani DiFranco, Corey Harris, Gov't Mule, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Eliza Gylkison, Sophie B. Hawkins, Chris Williamson, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Buffy Saint Marie, Arlo Guthrie, Rick Danko of The Band, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin, Tony Furtado & The American Gypsies, Henry Butler, John McEuen of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Pete Seeger, Janis Ian, Toshi Regan, Judy Mowatt of the I-Threes (Bob Marley's back up singers).
Also on CDBABY:
WILDSANG: BLUES - 2001
HILLARY KAY: EMBRACE THE MORNING - 1999
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author: DavidThis is mind-blowing! This IS the Blues!