Always been one of my favorites

One of the most memorable songs of the film

I remember this!

😲👍-Whoa. I was 'Today Years Old' upon discovering this bit of musicology.

On my permanent playlist

If you are particularly interested in Aboriginal artists, here are just a couple from Canada (there are dozens more): Aysanabee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTa... Tom Wilson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yF-...

What did you think “Redbone” stood for?? 😂

Still a classic tune 🎵

I listen to this song often, it was played a lot in the 70’s.

Very cool! My 7 year old grandson loves this song!

Always loved this song

I knew this! One of my fave songs! ❤️❤️

One of my favorite songs!

❤️👏👏👏

I'm from the era. Always liked this song.

Same! ☺️

Excellent!

Loved this song ❤️

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

What!! Thats fucking awesome!! I love that song

lol! I always thought they were a Black group! Thank the Universe for the Internet and the information super highway...and YouTube.

Native American, Indigenous

Great song.

Just wait until you find out who recorded "Smoke Two Joints" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyes

I had no clue. 🧐

Have always known it and lived the song even more for the representation. Too bad this wasn’t publicized more when this song hit big!

😊👍

Loved this song as kid, still love it. Redbone! Fond memories.

Redbone was a good band. I like this one a lot music.apple.com/nl/album/the...

youtu.be/UyNYL2lUSMs?... for those that don't apple.

Thanks for that

Love this song, still have the 45 somewhere. Loved this from 1970 too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuhk...

One of my favorites and a staple of my Halloween mixes.

I've loved this song since it was first released when I was about 13. It still sounds absolutely amazing.

I love this song!

I did not know this. Thanks for sharing!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

SO GOOD ☺️

Come and get yo love!

Redbone!! It is the Song Bill Burr used for his animated series F is for Family.

All time jam

This is really good www.pbs.org/video/rumble...

We need to support PBS!

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I gotta ask my mom, she might know the song

I didn’t know either until a week or two ago.

Groovey, didn't know they were native Americans, what a revelation.

One of the best

The Burt Sugarman estate is putting all the episodes of The Midnight Special up on YouTube. They're an absolute treasure trove of '70s music (and fashion!), including this performance.

They haven’t post the 1979 episode hosted by @thecarsbsnd yet. I’ve only seen it in its entirety on VHS and every uploaded copy has disappeared from YouTube.

Yeah, it looks as though they're still in 1975. Here's hoping they get to it in the not-too-distant future!

And their ironclad rule was live performances only. No recorded parts and definitely no lip syncing.

If I'm not mistaken, there's an episode that features The New York Dolls and T. Rex's only appearance on U.S. television. As I said: treasure trove 🙂

Somehow it was more immediate than concert movies; perhaps it was the recurring familiarity of the set but it just felt real; not overproduced, no effects, relatively simple and consistent camerawork and lighting; nothing but the performance.

You should watch the movie rumble

One of the greats...

REDBONE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MpP...

One of my all time favorites!

And these guys, so good looking! Always loved this song! How can you not!

Mmmm, not exactly. Yes they have Native American blood/roots, but were dudes from LA. I actually got to see them live in Las Vegas in 1975. They had a VERY corny opening where the wore "traditional" (i.e. Hollywood caricature) Indian gear and pranced around the stage in beat with the bass drum.

Great song anyway. One hit wonder.

Because only real Native Americans live on the rez? They wore Indian "gear"? Pranced to a bass drum? So tell me, was that a Northern or Southern drum?

Other than the cringe opening, it was a good concert.

Just a guess, but it was a white guy manager drum.

One of my favorite Taj songs. The cat on the left is Jesse Ed Davis, a member of the Kiowa First Nation. He played on Taj Mahal’s first 4 albums. youtu.be/bpKPhsC9Nnw

I’ve always loved this song….

My brothers first concert!🤣

Great music. Great band.

I looked it up after I heard it in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. It spoke to me loudly. Considering I’m part Shawnee, I guess it makes sense that it did. What a groovy song. 🙂

Some are still keeping it alive! ♥️

I was today-years old when I learned this 🫠

Are you a little slow?

if we're going to talk about reparations----these righteous Native Americans get it first...

~ ~ I love Redbone! As a tweenager I had a crush on most of the guys in the band. Every band, actually. 😜🤣

I had no idea! Love this song, brings back good kid memories 😊

WOW, I had no idea!!!!! Thank you for sharing, Mermaid

news to me

Saw them back in the 70’s on the Midnight Special or something like that

Love it!

You should watch this...

Great doc

Wow. Just looked this up. "It made them the first Native American band to reach the top five on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number five."

Redbone's heritage was not just Native, but also Mexican - an ever more important footnote in this time when white supremacists are seeking erasure of both Native American and Mexican-American history.

I’m soooo sick of this white supremest bullshit, and I’m white. It makes me angry!!! What the fuck is wrong with them??? Their scumbags!!! You tell’em Mr. Russell😊

In those days, there was only one rock station and they played everything, Redbone, Earth, Wind and Fire, The Doobie Brothers, all on one station. Those were the days

It’s almost like rock had existed for only two decades instead of seven and only had enough music for one station

Yeah, says a lot about music of that era doesn’t it?

I used to hear the Redbone tracks “Maggie” and “Witch Queen Of New Orleans” played back in the day.

I was just listening to a Juan Atkins interview by RA, where he says he was super influenced by a radio dj who played funk and current rock (mid 1970s) and Kraftwerk and … Don’t know if that kind of mixing exists anywhere these days.

When I was growing up it was KC101. They played everything in the 80s and 90s. Now? I find out about new music from Tik Tok.

YES. I really miss that.

Me too! We were exposed to such a great variety of music.

If you can stream stations online, KXCI is the local station in Tucson and they are 100% community owned. Most DJs volunteer their time and they aren’t bound by conglomerate songs lists. They even have a camp for kids, who get an hour to run their own sets on Sunday afternoons. It’s a great station.

Thanks!

I forgot the best part, no commercials!

Amazing! 🤠

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According to my mom, they played the same music ad nauseum. So I’m inclined not to believe a damn thing on this thread.

They largely stuck to a Top 50, if not Top 40, playlist with some oldies thrown in; but there were many crossover hits in the Top 40 back then. You'd hear pop, hard rock, r&b/soul, and some country in the space of an hour. Now, if you were still listening 2 hours later, you might hear them again...

Ok, you kind of sound like a young, so I'll just say that radio was different back then. There was loads of variety, but not a ton of bands to choose from in each genre? So we're saying that we (as olds) got to enjoy the variety, even if we heard "Cherish" over and over.

I listen to this everyday. 70s rock ride. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🤘

Now you get one song and 35 minutes of ads on the radio

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbone...

This was never banned. Saw them on In Concert. 11:30 on Friday nights.

Who said it was banned?

Wliwni!

Redbone! ❤️🤙🏼

💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼

Great Band !

Big, big hit back in the day...very catchy...

They were groovy. Saw them on Midnight Special.

Fancy dancer at the end if you watch the full live video.

America always finds ways, even if discreet, to continue to keep racism alive & STEAL what's not theirs. It's ALWAYS gotta be somebody; from Native Americans, African Americans, the Irish....It's the American way until it's not.

From an article in the Orlando Sentinel, the reporter was discussing names in Florida and this paragraph hit it on the nail.

Awww. Still my favorite song. And we knew it was an Indigenous band. What else would “Redbone“ mean?

Leon?

Redbone

They had a lot of hits.

So good, back in the day!

Great song.

Great song.

Great tune & yep am that old.

Thanks for that! Sang along to that a thousand times

This is one of my favorite songs of all time

I knew and absolutely loved it, still do!

I loved it & didn’t know. They are marvelous!

I never knew this!

100%! One of my all-time favorite tunes!!!

Legendary, perfect voice. 💕

Thank you! You found solid gold, (real gold, not that fool's stuff in the Oval Office).

Well I'll be darned. I never knew this either. Shame on me!👍👏

I listened to them back in '70 during my pro drumming career. The song "Maggie" is as badass today as back then. These boys were the real deal. youtu.be/s91hvRs3_SY?...

Wow that brings back some memories. Great song when it came out.

👏Never heard this but like it. Rita Coolidge and her sister made a CD on their Cherokee heritage.

The CD is called Walela

Have 1 of their CD's. They were great! Also really like Joanne Shenendoah and Bill Miller (got to see him live once and got hooked on his music).

Back in the 90's I had a Native American Art store and music was popular seller.

The song "Come and Get Your Love" was used in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

I always knew who they were; loved that song and them!!!

Such a great song ☺️

This is one of the reasons I like it here on Bluesky. I am constantly learning something. I loved the song but never knew the singers were American Indians. ❤️👏

I knew this back when I was a kid, but can't for the life of me remember what variety show my parents accidentally let me watch that revealed that to me.

A quick scroll through the comments, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned the TV show Reservation Dogs. they had an episode featuring this song (and I highly recommend the show)

Best show ever.

It was used in Guardians of the Galaxy also.

Same here...highly recommend! Available on Hulu.

One of my all time favorites.

Look up Jesse Ed Davis.

The name of the band, their faces and the clothes are rather telling clues, But maybe that is just for me.

The name "Redbone" could be a clue in some circles. I heard it a zillion times on the radio without cluing in. The DJs must not have wanted to know.

There's a pow wow opening in longer videos.

This was a huge hit back in the day

I bought my car from the bass player's son!!! It was awesome

Redbone a great American band.Had hits with Maggie and the witch queen of New Orleans.

I had no idea…thank you!!

It was kept secret

I knew.

My Navajo Nation I high school students taught me that. It’s a classroom favorite . Redbone

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Wow, never knew this.

The cutest bass player ever 🥰

HELLO, LOTS of BEAUTIFUL MUSIC by BROWN people or NATIVES but WHITE 'SELF RIGHTEOUS' folks DON'T want to LISTEN to IT OR JUST don't want it carried FORWARD . . .

No. Lots of white kids were never told who was singing. There are a lot of white people who grew up without the information because someone else didn't want us to know.

Just beautiful 💝

I was today years old. Never knew. Wow! 🤩

I am Italian and I knew it but my American husband did not 😳

Awesome guitar solo.

A high-school mate of mine married Pat Vegas, who, along with his brother Lolly, is a founding member of Redbone.

Pat Vegas is still alive. Lolly passed away some years ago.

Have always loved this song♥️

And don't forget Indio, who wrote Big Hard Sun. youtu.be/T1tVvQUAcf4?...

Can’t forget them because I never heard of them, and my ear was literally glued to a transistor radio.

It was one of the songs that I know my Chicago FM station played during my genx childhood. I vaguely remember it in the background. I like Vedders version, but I wish he would have more upfront about it being a cover. Took me a while to process it.

Wow, brilliant!

Redbone FTW! Thanks for this, I haven't listened to this band in a while.

I did not know this. Thank you so much.🙏☺️

His music is amaIng.

It rocks

I have been listening to this song in heavy rotation for fifty years.

Maybe not as long for me, but yeah...It's a staple song that I sing it to my dogs.

(snort) I sing this in my head when I pick up the dogs from the groomers "come and get your dog"

💙

When music was great .

Still love this so much. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

One of my all time favorites!! ❤️❤️

Yup, I always knew that.

I did not know that.

😍🎶

Is their name a sexual innuendo?

Great song.

Yep, Pat and Lolly was my very next thought!

Thanks for sharing it, love this song.

I'm sorry, but have you been living in a cave? Wait till you hear about an amazing Blues/Rock group called "Indigenous". Check out their Pachyderm Studio recordings. Total fire.

We've seen them in concert and have their cds. Really great blues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09f...

This song was in heavy rotation on the L.A. radio stations I listened to back in the 70s; the dj’s often pointed out that Redbone was a Native American band. I’m pretty sure I’ve still got this 45 up in the attic; never heard of the band being censored.

I love Redbone, though I didn't know the membership until the web era.

👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏

I watched Redbone perform in Calgary, Canada, on May 9th, 1975, at the Foothills Arena.

I watched Redbone perform at the in Calgary, Canada, on May 9th, 1975, at the Foothills Arena.

Life is always about continued learning. Bravo for taking the time.

Saw them in concert in 1974.

Bloody brilliant

Wow! The number of times I’ve listened to this song yet didn’t know Redbone were Native Americans!

I've always dug this song of theirs. A funky rocker! youtu.be/s91hvRs3_SY?...

Great song

Love it!

“Redbone” wasn’t a hint?!? 🤭

Duh.

Totally. Love Redbone.

What’s the a random Native American hair care routine?

Wow! I never knew! Awesome.

Loved this song when I was growing up ! Brings back good memories 🫶🥂

Always loved that song, but didn’t know it was by natives either until fairly recently. Didn’t have MTV when it came out & they sure LOOK native.

I wonder where these guys are now. Great song!

Some are still around playing the music! ♥️

There's a PBS documentary called "Rumble: Indians who rocked the world" and its so good, you'll discover a lot of bands you didn't know before who were indigenous ❤️

Great documentary!

I've seen it and agree 100%

Agreed, it's great...

It’s also on Prime video. Great video. I’ve watched it many times.

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social given your love of music, this might be a great intersectional topic for your weekly segment with @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social and @juliefrancella.com

Aanii Marie! I actually have used that documentary in some of my classes.

Aanii, Julie! I assumed you already knew about it. By the way, I really cherish you and Simon educating us every week about indigenous history and how it echoes in the issues facing indigenous people, today. ☮️💙

Apichigo migwetch (Big thank you)

www.pbs.org/independentl...

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I’m watching it now, thanks to you!

Better watch it now before it disappears!

Actually PBS will live on. When gov't funding ends, we will still be able to become members and have access to their library, like a streaming service. www.ninepbs.org/blogs/news/d...

We hope & pray.

link.tubi.tv/iekfQ64B6Vb

Just looked it up to be looks Tubi is the only one that has it for free. Watching

I saw Link Ray in a small club in Rochester, ny. He kept blowing an amp during rumble. He was really high but his son kept kept kept the music going.

Actually, my apologies, it's Link Wray.

Link Wray - inventor of the power chord. He had the only instrumental song that was banned by the FCC.”Rumble.”

It was banned?

It was! www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...

Insanity.

The absolute undeniable power of music.

The other cool thing: the confluence of indigenous and African-American music. Did not know that connection ❤️ For Canadians out there, it’s free on CBC Gem 🇨🇦

Excellent documentary. Watched it on PBS a couple years ago.

Brilliant documentary! Music to me is a universal language. How can people fight if they're too busy groovin' to a badass tune?

Came here to say this

I try to get as many people to watch that as I can, Native Music history tends to be erased for a Black and white (literally) view of musical history.

My late husband was full blood Chippewa-Cree. In our 39 years together, we talked about music a million times, but never about this. I wish he was here to watch it. Thank you for sharing this.

Sounds like you truly loved him, and that makes life worthwhile. My mom and dad were together for over 42 years when he passed away, dad was a pistol he was very mixed overall, a lakota man with multiple lakota tribes, cherokee, and a bland of southern tribes and some hispanic roots.

My mom is a mixed up European woman who is mostly Celtic, despite her own trauma from living on multiple reservations growing up (including standing rock during the AIM riots in the 70s). She always loved native people and our cultures, her and dad were fierce in teaching me to love my roots.

Since we lost dad mom has become insperable with his sister, and me and her spend a lot of time making teas, muscle rubs, food and more for the people i the family who have less. I love the unity of a good native family, it's very unique.

Thank you for sharing your part of your life with me. Its good to meet someone like you who i can talk about this with. I'm sorry about your dad. I know how your mom feels. 🤗🥰

Welcome and thank you

❤️

I was from Oklahoma, and spending a lot of time in Pine Ridge area was quite the education. I have several cousins that live there now. Their parents both died from diabetes. That marriage didn't last but two years. My second husband was a wonderful man from Montana. He died in 2022.

Yes it is. My stepfather was native american from Oklahoma, and his brother married a Lakota woman. They lived at Wounded Knee. We lived with them for a year, and i met my first husband, a Lakota Sioux, in Chadron, NE. We lived with his mom, who had a large family in Pine Ridge.

I know chadron well

We moved there after i got married at 17. Its kind of strange to go from Chadron into Pine Ridge, isn't it? I haven't been back in many years, but i have lots of good memories. There used to be a blue house across from Pine Ridge hospital. My mother in laws family lived there.

not sure if it is still there, but that hospital holds a lot of trauma for me... I hate IHS

Hey how are you doing?

Busy lately so limited posting

No worries at all! Just wanted to check in. Hope everything's going well with all the busyness

omg thank you for this 🙏 big music person, even bigger fan of the evolution of music and how POC have influenced those evolutions.

link.tubi.tv/iekfQ64B6Vb

Amazing! I teach History of Music and my goal for this year is to bolster my Indigenous representation. Can't wait to check it out!

Do you know if it’s it’s on PBS passport?

I'm not sure, but I watched it on Amazon Prime some years ago when it was free

Oh nice. I’m planning to sign up for passport to support PBS. If it is on there, that’s an extra bonus. Thanks again for sharing!!!!

Loved that doc. youtu.be/8E1VVadxjRw?...

I learned something today!🎶

Love this band so much.

Tribal Dancing to open the song on “Midnight Special” 1974… youtu.be/OnJqFrVD3uE?...

Came here looking for this full version.

I love this joint, its on one of my many playlists

My TouchTunes go t🖖😎🦋💞🎶o ...

I was so happy with your find it brought tears to my eyes...thank you

Was living in the Netherlands at the time, and everyone knew Redbone was a native American band .

That's wild. I never heard of them before today!!! Don't know how that happened.

It’s on my playlist

This is so awesome. When will we giver Native Americans the respect they deserve. Our country is their only home. The rest of us have our ancestors rooted in other countries. As we move forward...let be mindful these indigenous people had their share of ruthless attacks on their humanity.👍😍

There was a new animated version of this video made a few years ago and it is fricking beautiful. youtu.be/BA4rSO-h9Io

OZZY

Redbone! Love em!

Great tune.

Thanks for posting 💙I love this song.

I always liked this song.

Come and get it

yeah man, always liked this song

Only know of 'The Witch Queen of New Orleans' from Redbone.

Redbones , was a great rock band dressed with their native American attire.

Have you not watched Rez Dogs?

I saw Redbone in concert live in El Paso in the early 1970's great group.

I was 12 when I got this 45.

Great song, great group

link wray the inventor of the power chord was native american

This was from my youth. Im finding out recently that most of my favorite songs as a child were from "people of majority."

Thank you for sharing this. It deepens my appreciation for the song and for their work. They've had to fight for their voices to be heard. Their music isn’t just talent; it’s a testament to survival, cultural revival, and resistance against erasure.

What gave it away

They were awesome

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has known it for 50 years.