The current tracks with the exception of "boom boom", where recorded at Frogville Records, Santa Fe, NM on August 24th, 2008 with engineer, Bill Palmer, drums, Andy Kravitz, guitars; Beaver Thomas, harmonica and vocals; Gary Farmer.
Boom Boom was recorded at Jono Manson Studios on January 10th, 2009 with engineer, Jono Manson, drums; Logan Nix, bass; John Longbow, guitar; Jaime Bird Yellowhorse, harmonica and vocals; Gary Farmer
Purchase: "Lovesick Blues", (2009), or "Love Songs and Other Issues" (2007), by sending $20 to Gary Farmer, P.O. Box 31096, Santa Fe, NM, 87594
Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers would like to remember and dedicate a spot to Floyd Westermen in the memory of the VFW show in 2006. For some of us it is the first and last time we would play music with such a man.
Gary Farmer, harmonica and vocals.
John Longbow "Bass"
Jamie Bird Lead Guitar
Logan Nix Drums
Booking information...call John @ 505-362-9087 or Gary @ 505-629-6580.
Influences
Jesse Edwin Davis, Stevie Wonder, Buck Owens, John Lee Hooker, The Cramps, Billy Mays, Buddy Guy, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Floyd RedCrow Westermen, Sid Hill, Johnny Cash, Etta James, Keith Secola, Robbie Robertson, Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, Doc Watson, Pura Fe, Herbie Hancock, Derek Miller, Neil Young, Faron Johns, Ricki Lee Jones, Little Walter and Willie Dixon.
Brock Stonefish, Neon Knepalm, Butch Rodriquez, Harold Siva, Patrick Raymond, James Luna, Benny Magante, Roger Cultee, Nick Mendoza, Virgil Ortiz, Ron Sarracino, Star Nayea, Denton McCabe, Arne Bey, Tony Rio, Jesse Paul, Luke Morgan, Beaver Thomas, Duris Maxwell, James "Many Trees" Holden, Rakesh Tewari, Robert Deane, Keith Secola, Jimmy Vickers, Jimmy Severino, Curtis Rogers, Shoby Black Plume, Boomer, Clyde Roulette, Daniel Garcia, Jake Fragua, Robert Rambo, Michael Schweigman, Daniel Talache, Lydel Mitchell, Jaime Bird Yellowhorse, Logan Nix, John Longbow, Bob Vesapariani, Britt Alexander and Shakti Hayes
Recording members:
Logan Nix, Jaime Bird Yellowhorse, Neon Knepalm, Nick Mendoza, John Longbow, Star Nayea, Jake Fragua, Michael Schweigman, Robert Rambo, Beaver Thomas, Andy Kravitz, Preston Singletary, Jono Manson, and Deborah Lamal.
Gary Farmer
Longtime actor and musician, Gary Farmer plays the harmonica and vocals with his band the Troublemakers; Jaime Bird Yellowhorse on guitar and vocals, John Longbow on bass and vocals, Logan Nix on drums. Farmer's first ever CD release, "Love Songs and Other Issues", 2007 and new release "Lovesick Blues", 2009. The new CD is full of standard blues songs from the likes of Junior Wells, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Taj Mahal and orginals like title track, "Lovesick Blues" and "Big and Strong". After a substantial career as an actor, filmmaker and cultural activist especially in the area of communications infrastructure for Native peoples and their communities. "Been a long-time supporter of public radio, especially in and around rural and urban communities world wide--it's the best way to take back control of our own lives after years of colonial oppression and genocide." Entertaining content that furthers the prosperity of indigneous people worldwide. But in the end, the blues is the answer.
Gary currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Please visit www.imdb.com/name/nm0001200 for more information on his movie/television career.
WE DO LOTS AND LOTS OF RESEARCH, WE TRY AND STAY OBJECTIVE. WELL THIS DAY I WAS REALY AFFECTED BY THE POVERTY AND LACK OF BASIC THINGS, LIKE WARMTH THE REZ. KIDS GOTTA LIVE WITH. AS A NDN KID ONCE APON A TIME, I REMEMBER HOW WE DIDDNT HAVE ENOUGH BLANKETS FOR ALL OF US IN OUR HOUSE. MY SISTER ALWAYS GOT THEN MY LIL BROTHERS. ME AND MY OLDER BROS WENT WITHOUT. SO I HAVE SOME FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LIVING IN POVERTY. AS I WAS DOING RESEARCH THIS DAY, I GOT STRUCK BY HOW AS KIDS WE DIDDNT KNOW WE WERE POOR, OR LIVING IN POVERTY. WE WAS JUST UNABLE TO SLEEP GOOD BECAUSE IT WAS TO COLD. THESE ARE NOT GOOD MEMORIES, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE GOOD MEMORIES, ITS STRANGE HOW WE KINDA BLOCK OUT THE BAD ONES. WELL THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF REZ. KIDS GOING THRU ALOT WORSE CONDITIONS ALL WERE ASKING FOR IS A BLANKET OR COAT, TO SEND TO THE REZ. KIDS...PLEASE HELP US HELP THE KIDS CONTACT US TODAY AT goodthinking4allourrelations@yahoo.com or fortherezkids1@myspace.com
American Indians Reservations; THE FIRST UNDERCLASS AREAS?
THIS STUDY WAS DONE BY GARY D. SANDEFUR, A PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK, AND SOCIOLOGY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON. AND AN AFFILIATE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY.
ACCORDING TO GARY D. SANDFUR'S RESEARCH, AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATION'S WITH POPULATIONS OS 2,000 OR MORE THAT ARE IN "UNDERCLASS" AREAS.
% OF HOUSEHOLDS IN POVERTY
FORT TOTTEN N. DAK. SOUIX TRIBE 54% GILA, RIVER, ARIZ. PIMA TRIBE 53% LEECH LAKE, MINN. OJIBWE TRIBE 43% PAPAGO ARIZ. PAPAGO TRIBE 58% PINE RIDGE S. DAK. SOUIX 56% RED LAKE MINN. CHIPPEWA TRIBE 43% ROSE BUD SOUIX TRIBE 49% SALT RIVER ARIZ. PIMA, AND MARICOPA TRIBES. 44% SISSETON N. DAK. & S. DAK. SESSETON WAHPETON SOUIX TRIBE 54% STANDING ROCK N. DAK. & S. DAK. SOUIX TRIBE. 51% FORT APACHE, ARIZ. APACHE TRIBE 54% HOPI ARIZ. HOPI TRIBE 54% NAVAJO ARIZ. NEW MEX. UTAH. NAVAJO TRIBE 53% N. CHEYENNE MONT. CHEYENNE TRIBE 56% SAN CARLOS ARIZ. APACHE TRIBE 66% SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO NEW MEX. SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE 44% TURTLE MOUNTIAN N. DAKOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE 46% ZUNI PUEBLO NEW MEX. ZUNI TRIBE 46%
Raiders Celebrate Native American Heritage Posted Nov 11, 2009
a a Several activities are scheduled for this Sunday's game... The Oakland Raiders will pay tribute to Native American Heritage Month this Sunday when the Silver and Black take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The celebration includes a KTNN radio broadcast in the Navajo language, an on-field ceremony to honor Navajo Code Talker and Former Leader of the Navajo Nation Peter MacDonald and a performance by the Native American dance group – Native Boogie and Beats.
“We salute the Navajo Nation and the Navajo Code Talkers and we are proud to broadcast Raider games in Navajo for the fifth consecutive season,” said Raiders Chief Executive Amy Trask. “We are committed to reaching our global fan base in a variety of languages and through a variety of multimedia options. Broadcasting our games in Navajo allows us to do this and also presents another opportunity to preserve the Navajo language and to salute the Navajo Code Talkers.”
Native Boogie and Beats will welcome fans with a traditional dance performance at the Coliseum BART entrance gate. The dancers will celebrate the beauty and pageantry of Native American social dance and singing styles commonly viewed at Pow Wows.
Hello GaRY, So they are playing "Powwow Highway" at the El morro in Gallup this weekend. Come down and watch it with my cousin Brenda and myself. .. from Gallup.
I really wanted to see your show here in Flagstaff, I've heard good things about it. When is the next time that your headed out this way. If its soon I would really like to know.
THERE ARE ALOT IF TROUBLESOME HEALTH RISKS THESE DAYS. SOME HAVE BEEN HERE AWHILE, SOME ARE NEW. THE SWINE FLU, FOR EXAMPLE. THESE AND MANY OTHER SICKNESS' ARE GROWING AND GATHERING STRENTH FROM WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE A SPIRITUAL PROBLEM NOT A MEDICAL ONE. FROM LONG AGO SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE HAS BEEN TURNED INTO RELIGION. THESE ARE TWO COMPLETLY DIFFRENT THINGS, 180 DEGREES OF DIFFRENCE. AND WE THINK ITS THE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE PEOPLE ARE RECIEVING {THAT THEY DON'T THINK THEY ARE RECIEVING} THAT IS THE PROBLEM. THERE HAS BEEN YEARS, 100'S OF YEARS OF MANIPULATION IN THE AREAS OF THESE THINGS. " EVERYTHING WE THINK, EVERYTHING WE DO, EVERYTHING WE SAY " WE ARE CALLING ON SPIRITUAL HELP. THE HELP WE RECIEVE IS ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE THINGS WE ARE SAYING, THINKING, AND DOING. THIS WAS LONG AGO WHAT WE CALL PRAYING... WE ARE ASKING FOR A NEW SPIRITUAL GUIDE TO BE CALLED ON TODAY, A HELPING GUIDE. WE ARE ASKING FOR EVERYONE TO GIVE THEIR NEIGHBOR A COAT OR BALNKET, OR SOME MILK, OR SOMETHING THEY NEED. HELP WITH THEIR YARD, OR CAR. ANYTHING. AND IF YOU CANT THINK OF ANYTHING SEND US A COAT OR BLANKET, WE WILL GIVE IT TO SOMEONE WHO NEEDS IT. WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN... IN DOING THIS WE WILL BE CALLING ON A POSITIVE SPIRIT TO BE AMONGST US. THE SPIRIT OF GIVING. THIS SPIRIT AND ITS NATURE IS THE START TO HEALING WITHIN. AND THIS WILL HELP US ALL AVOID THESE SICKNESS' THAT ARE HERE TODAY. CONTACT US HERE OR AT goodthinking4allourrelations@yahoo.com
Thanks for the add. I'm sorry I missed you guys at the Mine Shaft last night, but I found out about it a bit too late. I'll try to catch you in ABQ later.
THIS STUDY WAS DONE BY GARY D. SANDEFUR, A PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK, AND SOCIOLOGY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON. AND AN AFFILIATE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY.
ACCORDING TO GARY D. SANDFUR'S RESEARCH, AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATION'S WITH POPULATIONS OS 2,000 OR MORE THAT ARE IN "UNDERCLASS" AREAS.
% OF HOUSEHOLDS IN POVERTY
FORT TOTTEN N. DAK. SOUIX TRIBE 54% GILA, RIVER, ARIZ. PIMA TRIBE 53% LEECH LAKE, MINN. OJIBWE TRIBE 43% PAPAGO ARIZ. PAPAGO TRIBE 58% PINE RIDGE S. DAK. SOUIX 56% RED LAKE MINN. CHIPPEWA TRIBE 43% ROSE BUD SOUIX TRIBE 49% SALT RIVER ARIZ. PIMA, AND MARICOPA TRIBES. 44% SISSETON N. DAK. & S. DAK. SESSETON WAHPETON SOUIX TRIBE 54% STANDING ROCK N. DAK. & S. DAK. SOUIX TRIBE. 51% FORT APACHE, ARIZ. APACHE TRIBE 54% HOPI ARIZ. HOPI TRIBE 54% NAVAJO ARIZ. NEW MEX. UTAH. NAVAJO TRIBE 53% N. CHEYENNE MONT. CHEYENNE TRIBE 56% SAN CARLOS ARIZ. APACHE TRIBE 66% SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO NEW MEX. SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE 44% TURTLE MOUNTIAN N. DAKOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE 46% ZUNI PUEBLO NEW MEX. ZUNI TRIBE 46%