I’ve had the 1974 hit Come and Get Your Love by Redbone
stuck in my head for three days now. When
a song embeds itself in my head for longer than a day, I have to demystify it by Googling
it and looking up versions of it on YouTube.
Which is what I did two nights ago.
Which led to my discovery that the group Redbone was a Native &
Mexican American band. And that the members
of Redbone chose their band name because the term redbone is historically a
southern word referring to mixed blood. And that they formed because of the
encouragement of their friend, a successful guitarist of Native and African
American descent…a guy named Jimi Hendrix.
And all of that is just cool.
A wonderful live version of the song here.
Now that I have exorcised the song in my head by putting it in
yours, I hope that you enjoy singing it to
yourself for the rest of your day. You
can thank me later.
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