''Wovoka'' is the fifth album by Mexican American/Native American rock band Redbone. It was recorded between June and October of 1973, and was summarily released in November 1973 on Epic Records. It adds elements of Cajun and R&B to the band's signature style. The album was produced by brothers Pat Vegas (bass, vocals) and Lolly Vegas (guitars, vocals), in addition to sound engineer Alex Kazanegras. It was the last Redbone album to feature Peter DePoe on drums. The album was recorded with the help of multiple session musicians, including several additional backing vocalists. All main members of the band notably contributed to vocals. The album peaked on the US Billboard 200 at number 66 in 1974. The single "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" topped the Belgian and Dutch charts in 1973, but was notably absent from the American release after it was deemed too offensive for some audiences.

Track listing

LP

The track ''We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee'' was dropped from the US/Canadian release (KE 32462) due to its controversial theme. The song did appear on the European release (EPC 65500), and was moderately successful on the continent (see main Redbone entry). The LP version of ''Come and Get Your Love'' starts with a slow rendition of the chorus. This intro was cut from the single release. Side one #"Wovoka" (P. Vegas/L. Vegas) – 3:00 #"Sweet Lady of Love" (L. Vegas) – 3:08 #"Someday (A Good Song)" (P. Vegas/T. Bellamy) – 4:12 #"Liquid Truth" (L. Vegas) – 5:03 #"We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" (P. Vegas/L. Vegas) - 3:34 '' K release only' Side two #"

Come and Get Your Love "Come and Get Your Love" is a song by American rock band Redbone. The song was originally released as a promo track under the name "Hail" and was later featured on their fifth album, ''Wovoka'' (1973), under its current name. The song was rel ...

" (LP version) (L. Vegas) – 4:59 #"Day to Day Life" (P. Vegas/T. Bellamy) – 2:42 #"Chant Wovoka / "Clouds In My Sunshine" (P. Vegas) – 4:42 #"23rd and Mad" (L. Vegas/P. DePoe) - 6:46

CD

Released on the Columbia label in 1990, several edits were made to the album. The CD featured the single version of ''Come and Get Your Love''; the track boundary on the short ''Chant Wovoka'' vocal was moved; and the last track ''23rd and Mad'' was cut down. #"Wovoka" (P. Vegas/L. Vegas) – 3:00 #"Sweet Lady of Love" (L. Vegas) – 3:08 #"Someday (A Good Song)" (P. Vegas/T. Bellamy) – 4:12 #"Liquid Truth" (L. Vegas) – 5:03 #"

" (L. Vegas) – 3:27 #"Day to Day Life" / "Chant Wovoka" (P. Vegas/T. Bellamy) – 3:04 #"Clouds In My Sunshine" (P. Vegas) – 3:44 #"23rd and Mad" (L. Vegas/P. DePoe) - 3:08

Charts

Album

Personnel

Lolly Vegas Lolly Vegas (born Candido Albelando Vasquez-Vegas; October 2, 1939 – March 4, 2010) was a Mexican American musician of Indigenous descent. He played in numerous ensembles with his brother, Pat, including Pat & Lolly Vegas, The Avantis and Red ...

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

electric sitar An electric sitar is a type of electric guitar designed to mimic the sound of the sitar, a traditional musical instrument of India. Depending on the manufacturer and model, these instruments bear varying degrees of resemblance to the traditiona ...

, leslie guitar,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

Tony Bellamy Redbone is an American rock band founded in 1969 by brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas. All band members during their commercial peak were of Mexican American and Native American heritage, which was reflected in their songs, stage costumes, and alb ...

– rhythm guitar, wah wah guitar,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, vocals *

Pat Vegas Patrick "Pat" Vasquez-Vegas (born March 17, 1941) is a Mexican-American musician of Yaqui/Shoshone descent, vocalist, writer, and producer of Redbone, known for their hit singles "Come and Get Your Love", "The Witch Queen of New Orleans", "Magg ...

– bass,

fuzz bass Fuzz bass is a style of playing the electric bass or modifying its signal that produces a buzzy, distorted, overdriven sound, as the name implies. Overdriving a bass signal significantly changes the timbre, adds higher overtones (harmonics) ...

, vocals * Butch Rillera – drums,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

* Peter DePoe – drums,

Additional personnel

Gene Page Eugene Edgar Page Jr. (September 13, 1939 – August 24, 1998) was an American conductor, composer, arranger and record producer, most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. His sound can be heard in the arrangements he did for Jeffer ...

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orchestrator Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

Joe Sample Joseph Leslie Sample (February 1, 1939 – September 12, 2014) was an American keyboardist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Jazz Crusaders in 1960, the band which shortened its name to "The Crusaders" in 1971. He remained ...

- piano,

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

* Sherry Williams - background vocals * Eddie Caciedo -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Johnny Lopez - background vocals

References

1974 albums Redbone (band) albums Epic Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub