AKA Graffiti Man

John Trudell

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AKA Grafitti Man, the iconic 1992 album by John Trudell (1946-2015) is being re-issued on 180g 2LP. Trudell was one of the leaders for the Indian of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, and went on to serve as Chairman of the American Indian Movement (AIM) from 1973-1979. On February 11, 1979, he burned an American flag on the steps of the F.B.I J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington D.C., explaining he’d been taught in the military to burn the flag once it had been desecrated; and the US government’s treatment of Native Americans and its classism and racism had desecrated the flag.

About 12 hours after the flag incident, a fire “of suspicious origin” burned down Trudell’s home on the Shoshone-Paiute reservation in Nevada, killing Trudell’s pregnant wife, Tina, their three children and Tina’s mother. The F.B.I. declined to investigate, and the blaze was officially ruled an “accident.” After the fire, Trudell turned his tears into writing poetry and later, spoken word music and acting. A lifelong activist and human rights advocate, he was quoted as saying “I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.”

Upon it’s original release, AKA Grafitti Man was lauded by Bob Dylan as “the best album of the year” in Rolling Stone Magazine. Dylan and the Grateful Dead played the album during intermissions on their summer tour together.

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Track Listings

LP1
Rockin' The Res
Grafitti Man
Restless Situations
Wildfires
Baby Boom Che
Bombs Over Baghdad

LP2
Rich Man's War
Somebody's Kid
Never Never Blues
What He'd Done
Beauty In A Fade
Tina Smiled

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