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Martha Redbone performs her Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST performance from her home studio in Brooklyn s Navy Yards. The Native and African-American singer-songwriter is known for her mix of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Ky., which she infuses with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African-American father and the resilient spirit of her mother s Cherokee, Shawnee and Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. This set took place during the third night of our 2021 festival.
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White Drug Crime? What’s That?
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By Joshua Collins
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By Joshua Collins
In the dusty parking lot of an isolated honky-tonk in the remote regions of the Rocky Mountains, I handed a trumpet case containing $30,000 to a complete stranger.
The girl, perhaps 20, and looking every bit the part of the stereotypical mountain girl with hip-hugging jeans and cropped dirty-blond hair, told me to wait. She jumped into her SUV and sped down the dirt road, disappearing into the jagged peaks of the horizon in the high plains of South Park County, Colorado.
It was my introductory foray into drug smuggling, and I had no idea what I was doing. In theory, she would come back with 30 pounds of high-grade marijuana that I would then drive back to Brooklyn. At least I hoped she came back, because the money wasn’t mine.