Kate Freeman - Harp /
Hillary Kay - Voice/Guitar
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Influences
Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, Big Momma Thornton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Corey Harris, Guy Davis, Otis Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotton, Laura Nyro, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Odetta, Son House, The Staple Singers, John Lee Hooker, Sly & the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Miles Davis, Rory Block, Bach, Coltrane, Bird, Chopin, Rimsky Korsakov, Marie Boine, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ulali, Ubaka Hill, Pura Fe, Ani Difranco, Eva Cassidy, Joan Baez, Joan Osborn, Joan Armatrading, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Nakai, Mary Watkins, Ferron, Linda Tillery, Richie Havens, Chaka Kahn, Kelly Joe Phelps, Steel Pulse, Paul Pena, Michael Hedges, Nat King Cole, Dina Washington, Miss Sarah Vaughn, Miss Betty Carter, Miss Nina Simone, Ms.Ella Fitzgerald, Ms.Billy Holiday, Ms.Aretha Franklin, Fugs, Holy Modal Rounders, Indigo Girls, Joe King Oliver, Jimmy Cliff, Sandy Bull, John Fahey, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Andre Segovia, Ulysses Kay, Aaron Copeland, Jorge Morel, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Ray Charles, Alive, Keb' Mo', Muddy Waters, Robert Belfour, R.L.Burnside, John Hammond jr, Keith Jarrett, Marvin Gaye, MJQ, Thelonius Monk, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Edwina Lee Tyler, June Millington, Gil Scott Heron, Taj Mahal, Nawang Khechog, Big Mama Thornton, Little Walter.
*Independent Music Awards - "JOSIE" - 2005 Best Blues Song
*Pasatiempo's Best - "SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH" - 2003 Best New Mexico Album
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 the twenty first century 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.
Berklee College of Music alumni, 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's mother, Freedom Rider Barbara Kay - 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. The Freedom Songs kept up the spirits of the protesters on the marches and in the jails and Hillary was raised in this tradition. Hillary has performed in colleges and clubs up and down the east and west US coasts as well as in Rome Italy. Inspired by her love of the blues and the music of Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, Big Momma Thornton, Robert Johnson and Son House, Hillary acquired a 1933 National 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.
WILDSANG has shared the stage with and/or opened for - 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, Judy Mowatt of the I-Threes (Bob Marley's back up singers), Toshi Reagan, Janis Ian and Pete Seeger, to name a few.
Hey thanks for the find loving your sound check out my video we have the same vibe here in caliefornia I call us delta blues californakation style. its a feelin and yous gots it. love new friends nedra songwriter form Rosewood.
Hello Wildsang, Thank you for being friends with WRMusicReview!
We recently teamed up with our friends @ HunnyPot Radio on their most recent show this past Monday, Nov. 3rd featuring live performances by Obedient Waves & Hot Pink DeLorean, and would LOVE to share the week-long re-broadcast and download (see Hunnydrip Blog) with you and yours!
Click Below to listen to the re-broadcast and to learn more about Hunnypot!
Happy Halloween! from Japan!! I'm not Ghost.^^; just stop to say our information. next our "Bigfish live show" is scheduled on 7th December at Kichijoji MANDA-LA2, Tokyo. Three Japanese Female peaceful singers; Hana Saito, NAORYU and Rika Shinohara play there. They sound like folky heart-warm and acoustic. thanks for checking our live information. Hope everything is good in your life! Have a happy Halloween time. ARIGATO
Hi everybody, just here to say a big thanks for all your support. The new workshop is well and truly up and running and the custom cabs are now available to order. All the best, Stevie Flynn.
Cher Ami, Mon clip Neurofibro est en ligne depuis hier. Il parle de la maladie génétique orpheline, la neurofibromatose, dont je suis atteint et qui m’a paralysé il y a maintenant 10 ans. Il faut absolument se mobiliser. Si vous voulez nous aider, merci de le regarder et de le diffuser à toutes vos connaissances. Pour nous, les malades, c’est vital. Plus le clip sera vu, plus la maladie, sera connue, plus nous aurons de poids dans les médias et surtout plus on aura de chance qu’un médicament soit trouvé. Merci à tous.
Dear Friend, My Neurofibro clip is online since yesterday. He talks about the orphan genetic disease, neurofibromatosis, which I achieved and that paralyzed me there are now 10 years. It is imperative to mobilize. If you want to help us, thank you for watching and distribute to your friends. For us, the sick, is vital. Over the clip will be seen over the disease is known, we will have more weight in the media and more will likely be a drug found. I thank you all.
Cool sound...thanx for the befriending...1969 in my driveway? hmmm . . . not sure I even had a driveway then . . . but like they say if you remember the 60's you probably weren't there.... :)
