November 25, 2014
Light In the Attic
3x12" + 60pg. liner notes
Considering the wealth of eclectic musics Light In The Attic has unearthed, compiled and released with stunning consistency in the label’s twelve-years, that they claim the Native North America (Vol.1) boxset to be their “most ambitious and historically significant project” should not be taken...Light-ly…A bittersweet 15-year labor of love, in collaboration with Vancouver-based record archaeologist Kevin “Sipreano” Howes, the 34-track triple-LP boxset is accompanied by a novella-sized liner-notes booklet that sheds further light on the massive roster of Indigenous artists who’s revolutionary music was integral to the formation of country/folk-rock as we know it today.
IYL: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Crazy Horse, the self-determination of talent