Joe McPhee - Nation Time"It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time. It was December 1970, thirty one year old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka's poem 'It's Nation Time,' and the students at Vassar College didn't know what hit them. 'What time is it?' shouted the bandleader. 'C'mon, you can do better than that. What time is it?!' "The music on Nation Time came out of the

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funk and psychedelic sounds coming out of the Middle East and South Asia in the 70s

 Seeing people’s minds getting blown by Coltrane’s music

12: Calm (Instrumental)

washed out

These are exuberant

A gentle honesty that recalls the finest folk music made on the West Coast of the ‰Û÷70s

and weird sex

They roared without irony

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So sit back and stomp your foot to the melodic acoustic guitar

Pokey LaFarge tries to make sense of trouble he‰۪s seen and trouble he‰۪s been in