Review: No No Boy

Subject: Review: No No Boy
From: StephenH
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 05:09 PM

I have spent the last few days listening to a couple of songs by No No Boy (Julian Saporiti.) To me, they are a delightful take on this music we call folk (or don't.)
This descritption of the song "La Banda Mas Chingon en Wyoming"
(The Best Goddamned Band in Wyoming), sums up the spirit of the music:
"A mariachi rendition… of a folk-country song… about a 1940s Asian American s swing band… composed in
Wyoming… by the son of a Vietnamese refugee… from Nashville… performed in Southern California: this is the
layered and deeply American excavation of No-No Boy’s newest single, “La Banda Más Chingón en Wyoming.”
A bilingual update to No-No Boy’s “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming,” "
I liked it so much that I purchased the two song download from the Smithsonian Folkways site. This also included an excellent pdf booklet.
The other song "Nitro '66 Cannonball Blues" is a reworking of a Carter Family song which shifts the focus to the viewpoint of a Chinese railway worker.
Anyway, I could go on but won't.
On the off-chance that someone else will like the songs as much as I do, here are links to the recordings:
https://youtu.be/84EXe-Kswk4

https://youtu.be/wckpoWnhHew

Subject: RE: Review: No No Boy
From: StephenH
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 05:18 PM

Sorry, always seem to get it wrong the first time:

https://youtu.be/wckpoWnhHew


https://youtu.be/84EXe-Kswk4