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- AKA Grafitti Man is an album by the Native American musician John Trudell, released in 1992. The songs, parts of which were rerecorded, first appeared on four cassettes Trudell made in the 1980s and early 1990s. The aka Grafitti Man cassette, recorded with Jesse Ed Davis in 1986, was called the best album of the year by Bob Dylan.
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AKA Grafitti Man is an album by the Native American musician John Trudell, released in 1992. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The songs, parts of which were rerecorded, first appeared on four cassettes Trudell made in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Trudell recorded an album AKA Grafitti Man ("graffiti" was misspelled in the title) with Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis that was originally available on cassette tape format only. This comports with the practice common to American Indigenous and other minorities of distributing music mixtapes .
In an interview in Rolling Stone, Dylan called AKA GRAFITTI MAN “the best album of 1986,” and had the album played over the P.A. system during intermissions in his 1987 tour. Among Trudell’s other fans is Kris Kristofferson, who wrote the song “Johnny Lobo” as a tribute to his remarkable life.
Forty-six years old at the time, Trudell had just released his first nationally distributed album, “AKA Grafitti Man,” one of the most listenable and powerful spoken word albums ever made thanks to Trudell’s searing verse and the music of the late Kiowa Indian guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, known for his work with Taj Mahal, John Lennon ...
AKA Grafitti Man is an album by the Native American musician John Trudell, released in 1992. The songs, parts of which were rerecorded, first appeared on four cassettes Trudell made in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Trudell and his bandmates were sometimes too advanced for popular comprehension, but enlightened listeners such as Marlon Brando, Kris Kristofferson, and Davis’s old pal Bob Dylan got it. Dylan played Trudell and Davis’s AKA Graffiti Man before taking the stage and called it the best album of 1986.
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