JOHN TRUDELL
Bone Days (Daemon Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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John Trudell has been very cool in the past, one of the few folk/spoken word performers I can stand, but this CD is pretty off what I've come to expect from him. I mean, he's always been deep and thoughtful and worldly and spiritual, but this record takes all that too far, to the point where once he was deep, he comes off as cliché, and the Native American chants in the background sound more comical than spiritual. Perhaps his recent appointment as Creative Advisor to Angelina Jolie's All Tribes Foundation has gotten to his head, and his best work comes from being ignored and oppressed instead of revered and respected.

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