arts & entertainment November 30, 2017 Page C1 EDITOR DEAN PFEIFFER // EMAIL PFEIFFERA@ETSU.EDU Martha Redbone Roots Projects reveals Appalachian heritage in Native American time I sing this music it’s my way of CONTRIBUTED honoring all our family.” What do...
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arts & entertainment November 30, 2017 Page C1 EDITOR DEAN PFEIFFER // EMAIL PFEIFFERA@ETSU.EDU Martha Redbone Roots Projects reveals Appalachian heritage in Native American time I sing this music it’s my way of CONTRIBUTED honoring all our family.” What do you get when you mix a The process inspired Redbone to Cherokee-Choctaw mother, a gospel- turn the record project into a larger singing black father, youth spent in endeavor she calls the Martha Red- the coal country of Kentucky, “gritty” bone Roots Project. teenage years in Brooklyn, New York, “Many people, especially in New and a band of blues and jazz musi- York City, don’t know anything about cians? You get the Martha Redbone Appalachia,” she says. “They just call Roots Project. all the people from there ‘country’ or Redbone describes her music as a ‘hillbillies.’ They know nothing about “blend of Native American elements, the beauty of our culture in the hills. funk, folk, country gospel, stomp So, I thought, ‘This is a wonderf
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