Video: Pura Fé “Rez Blues”
Posted by onehundredflowers on July 17, 2008
Pura Fé is a Native American [Tuscarora] artist who began her career as a founder of Ulali, the first Native American women’s a cappella group. In addition to this, she has a solo career. Here’s how her website describes her sound: “Her soulful voice and acoustic lap steel slide guitar, carries the ancestral message of the “Indigenous World” and the missing history that unified and separated the blood ties of Black and Indian people of the South. With a fresh new take, Pura Fe resurrects and elegantly states the common bond and the indigenous influence on the “birth of the blues”!”
This video was shot on the Tuscarora Reservation in North Carolina. Although the opening shot says “Familiar Joy”, the song is better known as “Rez Blues.”
