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FANTASTIC NEGRITO
Germany 2019 [no label, 1CD]
Bluesfestival. Schöppingen, Germany; June 8, 2019. Very good FM broadcast.
Fantastic Negrito, is an American singer-songwriter whose music spans blues, R&B, hip-hop and roots music. His 2016 album, The Last Days of Oakland, won a Grammy award for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 59th Grammy Awards. In 2019, his album Please Don’t Be Dead won the same category at the 61st Grammy Awards.
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premierguitar.com:
One day his son was cranky, and, out of solutions to satiate the kid, Negrito pulled out a guitar that ended up reigniting his creative juices. No, it wasn’t some closet classic 1958 sunburst Les Paul. Quite the opposite, really.
“It was a cheap guitar from Thailand, and I hated it,” says Negrito. “My friend, who had stolen some of my equipment because he was on heroin, gave me that guitar to try to make up for it. I was trying to sell it but nobody wanted it. So there it was, under that couch for five years. I picked that thing up, man, and looked at my son and strummed a G chord. I looked at this kid’s enjoyment of hearing the strings resonate with that wood. It made me feel so many different emotions - I was a little bit scared, excited - and I could feel the tingling behind my neck. That became the slow walk back to just playing. I learned ‘Across the Universe.’ I thought, ‘I’m gonna play this for my son to get him to sleep every night,’ and it worked like a charm.”
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Thanks to Tomyoungster for sharing the show at Dime.
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FM (digital cable) - Vistron VT 855 - Audacity - xACT
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Track 01. My Time In LA 1:44
Track 02. Bad Guy Necessity 3:11
Track 03. Scary Woman 4:29
Track 04. A Cold November Street 4:34
Track 05. An Honest Man 7:11
Track 06. A Boy Named Andrew 6:52
Track 07. Lost In A Crowd 8:12
Track 08. Interlude 1:14
Track 09. Transgender Biscuits 4:01
Track 10. Plastic Hamburger 3:39
Track 11. The Duffler 3:31
Track 12. Night Has Turned To Day 3:56
53 mins
On August 14, 2020, Fantastic Negrito will release his fifth studio album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? Click here to order the new release.