All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 3xCD box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Purchasable with gift card
$75USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set, on clear vinyl, with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Purchasable with gift card
$85USDor more
lyrics
Makes you wanna holla,
throw-up both’ya hands
but your mind wanders
off the page into an audience
divided into three groups
One, mousey-face art students
who still believe that jack Keroac-off is still alive,
and will be showing up to read from some “real’ urban tales
Two, a table full of beautiful lesbians from Montana
with so much clothing on that you start to think about
that homeless family living underneath, lower Wacker Drive
Three, thrill seeking North-Shore type,s
who’ve mistaken the joint for an after-the hours
Bears hangout, guzzling down cold beers
In turtle-neck sweaters.
Psssssssssssss, it’s your subconscious fucking wi’cha,
Psssssssssssss , “WHY IN”DA HELL ARE YOU HERE FOR?”
That’s when you jump into your Last Poets groove,
thinking, “This shit went over well with the brothers from Omega
last week, “Kill whitey, whitey did it!
Went to’da moon and fucked an alien.
Whitey, Whitey, Whitey….
Psssssssssssss, Psssssssssssss it’s your subconscious again
It’s getting the best of you, but you can’t control it to save
Your life…”Dats it, keep’em scared my brother, they like it
Like dat, real harrrd and funky. Make’em shit Jimmy Crow
make’em scream, ‘Take that shit back to the ghetto
We can’t take it anymore…’
Pssssssssssss, I think you got their attention,
the sister drinking with the loud-mouth Asian guy
didn’t get it. The art we arty than hell types
ain’t gonna get it because it’s a gender thang man
and racial paranoia, is just a civil-lite thang of the past.
And when you finally open your eyes, the entire audience
has turned into a long line of bungalows, circa Bridgeport 1993.
And you, you have your doubts too and they start to show,
“Asalama Laka, anybody checkout those L.A. Lakers? Hey
my brother can you pour me some more of that Folgers?
Pssssssssssss, they’re clapping
As if a conductor is pointing at them. And yes,
a few are even scared. Psssssssssss, my brother,
do you think white-folks, spend as much time
thinking about white folks or do black folks
Spend as much time, thinking about white folks?
Psssssssssssss, my brother, did you know
That FUNK, use to be a bad word?
D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: a trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with
biting wit and political commentary. Led by Marvin Tate — a poet, artist, playwright and raconteur who wore pipe cleaners in his hair — and supported by a large, dynamic cast of characters, their music was both of and ahead of its time....more
supported by 12 fans who also own “When a Black Poet Reads Poetry to a 98% White Audience”
This record has such a magical flow to it, it seems to capture so directly the ups and downs of life, the joy of music and dance, and it's just so damn catchy and fun to listen to as well. Giles
