Fan's Heartwarming Story

The following is a submission we received that shares the deeply meaningful impact Rebone has had on their listeners:

Yá'át'ééh from Denver. I believe my daughter heard "Come & Get Your" for the first time via a movie a few weeks ago. Before we went out for her 29th birthday today, I heard her singing it in the shower. Asked her about it on the way to dinner, and she said she could not get it out of her head. So she streamed it on our drive over to the restaurant, and we all sang it. We had a great time tonight and............................she had to play it again on the way home.

Even at age 83.......I knew you would appreciate hearing that yet another generation of kids are emotionally impacted by your music, appreciate the rhythm/beats and the legacy you established.

I am almost 71, so I loved Maggie & Witch Queen in high school. University was a different scene but I do remember enjoying "Come and get your" back in '73. With over 1300 albums that we just went through to catalog, put up on new shelves and that I hope to digitize over the coming year.............I am a Rock-R&B-Soul-Jazz-Classical-Brazilian-CubanAfroBeat musical aficionado. Who one day would really like to teach today's kids the roots of where all the musical beats / sounds / rhythms / riffs & ballads came from.

Am soooooo very proud of you, your brother and the entire band for staking a HUGE Native-American mark within the American/British rock music songbook. Historical! We came up through the most magnificent age of musical possibility and multi-genre of styles, and musicians, from the early 60's into the 80's, that there has ever been!

The Indigenous Connection: Being from the coast of SE Georgia.....I went to a traditional boys camp in No Carolina for 4 years - age 11-14 - every summer. We HAD TO participate in multiple aspects of self-sustaining camp/hike/nature ctr/woods & woodcraft life. One of the areas I LOVED was (called at that time & place) Indian lore, which played a huge over-riding role in multiple aspects of our camp. We had to learn history (Cherokee-Tuscarora-Catawba-Iriquois) of all these tribes - make our own breach-clouts, bussels, leggings, chokra's, moccasins, learn face painting and sew/create other beaded adornments. We had to perform specific tasks to ascend to the Warrior rank in (blood) ceremonies. And there were always 2 Grand Councils (for the parents sake) every summer. We would enter from the woods with torches, dance, recite & sing in Cherokee, and follow a ceremonial ritual. When you are a white, southern, jewish kid......this had a long lasting impact on my outlook to other ethnicities, craft costuming, appreciation of what/whom came before ALL Americans who landed here, a reverent approach to Mtn's / the land - and of course the musical rhythms. Even to this day!

Can only hope that this memory, my past Native-American immersion, my musical and my daughter's experiences have given you a lift today. And a reminder that yours / Redbone's musical legacy will always live on!

A J C
Denver, CO