Stumpy: drums and production
Sleepa: guitar, vocals
'The Hornitz'
Stoo Bacca: Tenor Sax
Funky Wil: bass trombone
Funky Nick: trumpet
Jeff Watkins: Alto Sax
Sweet Willie Myette: piano, organ
T-Black: synths
Sir Thomas Brinkley: bass
Frank Wilson: bass
Jack Fury: bass
Jah Red Nixon:percussion,vocals
T-Buck: Lyricist, mental vibes
The Lovelysinger and others: vocals
Influences
George Clinton, and all the P-Funk crew, Mr. James Brown and his bands, Cannabis, Life.
Sounds Like
killer grooves with soulful female vocals, great keyboard and horn, a killer guitar, and a rhythym section that is FAT!
2007 MassCann/NORML Awards 'Best Head Music'!
2006 Marijuana Music Awards Song Of The Year and Album Of The Year!
Herbal Nation combines serious funk jams with a healthy hit of pro-hemp
awareness. Founded in 1995 by drummer/producer 'Stumpy' and made up of
killer players from throughout the Northeast U.S., Herbal Nation's first
full length studio cd "herbal nation", on 421records, was named
'Album of the Year' in the 2006 Global and American Marijuana Music
Awards. The cd features special guest performances by Jeff Watkins,
saxophonist for the Godfather of Soul himself, Mr. James Brown, and has
3 versions of their anthem 'We Love the Herb', The 2006 Global and
American Marijuana Music Awards 'Song of the Year'. Herbal Nation has
appeared with artists such as Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, Cypress
Hill, De La Soul, Fred Wesley, Toots and the Maytals, and they rang in
2005 by bringing their jams to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to open for
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic on New Year's Eve. Featured on
numerous occasions in High Times Magazine, they have headlined shows at
the High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam in 2002 and 2004, and have also
headlined the annual MassCann/NORML WBCN Freedom Rally on Boston
Common, Lebowski Fest NYC at The Knitting Factory in New York City, and The 2006 High Times Stony Awards at BB Kings NYC where they were joined by Paliament -Funkadelic vocalists 'Divadelic'.
Check out the website for more pics, video, and live mp3's.
CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS OF HERBAL NATION feat. FRED THOMAS OF THE JB'S AND SOUL GENERALS AND SATIVA DIVA & RIC SMOOV OF P-FUNK BROOKLYN NY 10.13.07
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO OF HERBAL NATION FEATURING JAMES BROWN SAXOPHONIST JEFF WATKINS
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO OF HERBAL NATION FEATURING DIVADELICK AT THE 2006 STONY AWARDS
CHECK OUT ANOTHER VIDEO FEATURING DIVADELIC AT THE 2006 STONY AWARDS
CHECK IT OUT-THE HERBAL NATION HORNS JAMMIN' WITH 420 FUNK MOB FEATURING GEORGE CLINTON
GOOD MORNING...JUST ME NOTHIN' BORING, HOPE YOU'RE NOT SNORIN' & MAYBE YA GOT SOMETHIN' TO GET YA BY ME, MYSELF... BEEN DRY FOR DAYS & EVEN SOME BUNK STUFF WOULD CAUSE A DAZE BUT, GOT SOMETHIN' GOOD ACROSS THE HORIZON
WOULD RELAX MY NERVES CAUSIN' RED EYES & MAKE ME WHOLE AGAIN NO THANX TO A PRIOR FRIEND SO HERE'S HOPIN' YOU HAVE A BUZZIN' DAY JUST WANTED TO VISIT, STOP BY & SAY HEY! & BTW, LOVE THIS PIC ALTHOUGH IT MAKES ME SAD SUCH GOOD STUFF, WHAT A TEASE ...KNOW I WISH I HAD JUST A LITTLE SOMETHIN' TO PLEASE TO GET ME THRU THE DAY & IT'S REALLY AN AWEFUL SHAME ... YA KNOW IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS WAY IT SHOULD GROW IN FIELDS OF PLENTY PROVIDING HAPPINESS TO MANY & IT'S NO WONDER IT'S CONSIDERED A GATEWAY DRUG, CUZ WHEN YA CAN'T FIND IT, YA GOTTA FIND AN ALTERNATE BUZZ
Texas NORML's 4th Annual 6th Street Smokeout is coming up fast! Saturday, October 17th, at Momo's Club in Austin! You can get your tickets online by clicking "Tickets", and you know it's gonna be a sell-out!!
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