#85 in The Need To Know Badass Blues Instrumentals Series, Dragons and Windmills, features the spiritually rich Trumpet playing of Sonny Singh. The son of Sikh immigrants, Sonny grew up in South Carolina and now calls Brooklyn NY his home. In 2003, Sonny co-founded the political rock band Outernational and recorded an album produced by Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello. in 2008 Sonny co-founded Red Baraat a merging of North Indian bhangra with elements of hip-hop, jazz, and raw punk energy. Sonny's most recent effort is his first solo album, Chardi Kala, produced by Ozomatli's Wil-Dog Abers. Sonny has also worked with a number of labor and community-based organizations in New York City as an organizer and educator and regularly facilitates workshops and classes on social justice issues, community organizing, anti-oppression, and more. His writings on racial justice, Sikhism and social change, and Islamophobia have appeared in the Huffington Post, Colorlines, Asian American Literary Review, Jadaliyya, and Open City Magazine.
The backing band on this track is Rich Kirch (John Lee Hooker 1984-2001) on guitar, Alvino Bennett (Dave Mason, Stevie Wonder) on drums, and myself on bass. The track was recorded at Skunkworks in Capitola CA and was mixed and mastered by the super bad, F. Reid Shippen.
The backing band on this track is Rich Kirch (John Lee Hooker 1984-2001) on guitar, Alvino Bennett (Dave Mason, Stevie Wonder) on drums, and myself on bass. The track was recorded at Skunkworks in Capitola CA and was mixed and mastered by the super bad, F. Reid Shippen.
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