6958 - INDIGENOUS FEATURING MATO NANJI - Time Is Coming (2014)

INDIGENOUS FEATURING MATO NANJI
''TIME IS COMING''
MAY 27 2014
73:09

1 /Grey Skies
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji / Mike Varney/5:02
2 /I'm Telling You
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji / Mike Varney/4:12
3 /Good At Feelin' Bad
Rick Hollister / Bruce McCabe/3:48
4 /Time is Coming
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:17
5 /Sun Up, Sun Down
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:56
6 /Around the World
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:29
7 /Won't Be Around No More
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/7:44
8 /You're What I'm Living For
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:44
9 /Day By Day
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/6:30
10 /So Far Gone
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:37
11 /Give Me A Reason
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji / Mike Varney/4:53
12 /Something's Gotta Change
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/4:28
13 /Don't Know What To Do
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/8:29

Mato Nanji - All Guitars, Lead & Background Vocals
Jeff Martin - Drums
Steve Evans - Bass
Jesse Bradman - Keyboards & Background Vocals

Biography
by Heather Phares
The Native American blues-rock group Indigenous consists of three brothers, Mato Nanji (vocals and guitar), Pte (bass), and Horse (percussion), and their sister, Wanbdi (drums, vocals). The Nakota Nation members grew up on South Dakota's Yankton Indian Reservation and were inspired by their father, Greg Zephier, who had been a musician in the '60s and '70s and later became a spokesperson for Native American rights. The group released its 1998 debut album, Things We Do, on Pachyderm Records; the video for the title track was directed by Chris Eyre, who also directed the award-winning Native American film Smoke Signals. The group released the Blues This Morning EP and Live at Pachyderm Studios in 1999, while winning acclaim from critics and artists like Bonnie Raitt, the Indigo Girls, and Jackson Browne. The Circle followed in 2000.

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5001 - INDIGENOUS - Vanishing Americans (2013)

INDIGENOUS FEATURING MATO NANJI
''VANISHING AMERICANS''
MAY 28 2013
73:41

1/Everything You Need
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:42
2/Lovely Road
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji / Mike Varney/5:30
3/Don't Let Them Drive You Away
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:46
4/Gold Hearted Woman
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:50
5/Take Me Back
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/4:26
6/Can't Cry No More
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:42
7/Now That The Sunshine Is Gone
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/4:42
8/In My Sights
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/4:36
9/Always With You
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji / Mike Varney/5:39
10/Dark Days
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/8:04
11/Don't Be Afraid
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/4:33
12/I'll Keep Standing
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/5:09
13/Moon Is Rising
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji/8:02

BIOGRAPHY
by Heather Phares
The Native American blues-rock group Indigenous consists of three brothers, Mato Nanji (vocals and guitar), Pte (bass), and Horse (percussion), and their sister, Wanbdi (drums, vocals). The Nakota Nation members grew up on South Dakota's Yankton Indian Reservation and were inspired by their father, Greg Zephier, who had been a musician in the '60s and '70s and later became a spokesperson for Native American rights. The group released its 1998 debut album, Things We Do, on Pachyderm Records; the video for the title track was directed by Chris Eyre, who also directed the award-winning Native American film Smoke Signals. The group released the Blues This Morning EP and Live at Pachyderm Studios in 1999, while winning acclaim from critics and artists like Bonnie Raitt, the Indigo Girls, and Jackson Browne. The Circle followed in 2000.
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2745 - DAVID HIDALGO/MATO NANJI/LUTHER DICKINSON - 3 Skulls And The Truth (2012)

DAVID HIDALGO/MATO NANJI/LUTHER DICKINSON
''3 SKULLS AND THE TRUTH''
SEPTEMBER 25 2012
65:25

1/Have My Way with You
Luther Dickinson / Lightnin' Malcolm / Mato Nanji /6:41
2/I'm a Fool
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji /4:23
3/Make It Right
Mike Varney /5:56
4/Known ‘Round Here
Luther Dickinson /4:28
5/Coming Home
Mike Varney /5:47
6/All I Know
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji /4:06
7/The Worldly and the Divine
Mike Varney /5:54
8/Still Looking
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji /6:14
9/Cold as Hell
Luther Dickinson / Lightnin' Malcolm /5:39
10/The Truth Ain’t What It Seems
Mike Varney /4:47
11/Woke Up Alone
Leah Nanji / Mato Nanji /5:24
12/Natural Comb
Luther Dickinson / Jeff Martin / Jimbo Mathus /6:06

Luther Dickinson /Guitar, Slide Guitar, Soloist, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Steve Evans /Bass
David Hidalgo /Guitar, Soloist, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jeff Martin /Drums
Mato Nanji /Guitar, Soloist, Vocals, Vocals (Background)

REVIEW
by Thom Jurek
Luther Dickinson has been a busy man in 2012. This is the fourth recording he's either fronted or been a prime collaborator in during the calendar year. In May he released his own solo offering, Hambone's Meditations, a second offering with the South Memphis String Band, and Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here by his new band the Wandering on the same day. 3 Skulls and the Truth, with Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Indigenous founder and lead guitarist Mato Nanji, will be the one that most appeals to the wild, raucous sounds of Dickinson's prime unit, the North Mississippi Allstars. These three lead guitar players, backed by the rhythm section of drummer Jeff Martin and bassist Steve Evans, lay down 12 raw blues-based rock tunes. Produced by Mike Varney, 3 Skulls and the Truth is a hot mess. The sound is raw nasty, loose, and loud; it seems to draw inspiration from the nasty boogie of the early '70s -- particularly the one evangelized by ZZ Top. The material from Varney, Nanji, and Dickinson was all written for this date. The guitarists freely interact, strut their stuff, and keep things tight. This trio is made up of axe monsters; they understand roots rock as a dynamic -- not a revivalist -- force, where it meets the blues. The tunes are not merely jams; they're well-constructed songs with bridges, clever lyrics, and loads of six-string heat. Check the primitive blues stomp of "Have My Way with You," which opens the date. Dickinson's vocal blues moan, a stomping foot, and two guitars move back and forth before the band kicks in and the track becomes what might have been an outtake from Tres Hombres. "All I Know," with its swaggering roots boogie, is topped by soulful vocals by Nanji and Hidalgo, punctuated by two punchy guitars and underscored by Dickinson's slide. On "The Worldly and the Divine," blues, hard rock, and tripped-out Hendrixian psych seamlessly intertwine as the track nearly sprawls out of control. "The Truth Ain't What It Seems" charges out of the gate before winding itself in a labyrinth with a skittering set of funky breaks by Martin that somehow anchors the frontline riff and changes. There's a funky undertone that gets obliterated by the wailing exchange of fills by the principals. Likewise, closer "Natural Comb," a slow, churning blues, allows the guitarists not merely solos, but the ability to inform the tune's melody with all manner of fill and extensions. The humorous lyric keeps it all grounded. 3 Skulls and the Truth, which may be the rock party album of the year, proves that the blues and boogie are still very much alive as creative endeavors, and hopefully asserts that that this trio of slingers will team up again -- and soon.

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