Artist: Pat Thomas

As author Pat Thomas puts it, "Every revolution needs a soundtrack!" And in the late-'60s/early-'70s, the soundtrack and the revolution were often one in the same. In hs new book, Listen, Whitey!: The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 (Fantagraphics), and companion CD/double-LP of the same name (Light in the Attic), Thomas examines the Black Power movement of the 1960s and '70s, the explosion of creativity happening across the musical spectrum at the time, and the now-obscure Black power protest anthems that resulted from the two movements intertwining. [...]

Activist/musician/writer Pat Thomas has been busy the past five years compiling music, speeches and photos from the height of the Black Power movement, spending much of that time in Oakland, California, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party. The result is Thomas' forthcoming book, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 (out March 5 through Fantagraphics Books ), which entrenches us in one of the most politically and culturally explosive times in America, and more specifically in the writings and music of black revolutionaries like Bobby Seale, Huey Newton and [...]

• The Lumpen - Free Bobby Now

Often times when a bunch of dudes get together to form a supergroup it just ends up sounding like a bunch of egos piling into a closet and throwing their arms in the air as they wait for the money to rain down around them. About Group thankfully sound much more organic than that, like [...]

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor side-project About Group returns with their second album, 'Start and Complete', due out on April 16th via Domino Records. About Group, which also features John Coxon of Spiritualized, Charles Hayward of This Heat and Pat Thomas (has played with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley) recorded the album in one day at Abbey Road, Studio 2, and the songs were written by Alexis Taylor over the last few years. 'You're No Good', a re-versioning of Terry Riley's landmark 1967 track, is the first single off their album, and will be released on [...]

On en parlait récemment comme membre du groupe Pat Thomas & Marijata , le guitariste ghanéen Ebo taylor est remis à l'honneur grâce au label Strut Records qui édite Love and Death le tout premier album studio de l'artiste. La nouvelle n'est pas mince considérant qu'Ebo Taylor est sans doute l'un des plus grands musiciens africains encore vivant et que, hormis sur la compilation Afro-beat Airways , il était très difficile de se procurer des enregistrements de qualité de ce monstre du [...]

I noticed that a bit of money has been spent on Cafe Oto recently. Some new speakers have been attached to the roof. And, even more importantly, the brass pipe to the right of the stage which drips water when the venue gets a bit hot and humid (i.e. most nights) has been boxed off. [...]

Pat Thomas hails from Leland , Missisippi . That's on Highway 61 south of Clarksdale between Greenville and Indianola. His pop was the late artist /musician James " Son " Thomas. Pat, an artist /musician like his father, has a lovely soulful high lonesome voice that sails somewhere near Skip James at times and falls to John Lee Hooker's earth at others. Mr. Thomas has a fine, thoughtful, economic, and powerful acoustic guitar sound (though he plays electric on two tracks on His Father's Son ). Although most of Pat's repertoire comes [...]

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• Pat Thomas - The Woman I Love

The soundtrack to the raw blues documentary M FOR MiSSiSSiPPi is currently only available as part of a package that includes the DVD of M FOR MiSSiSSiPPi (signed by the film makers) as well as bumper stickers for principals Broke and Hungry Records and Cat Head Delta Folk Art (free shipping folks!) for a mere forty bucks. The soundtrack will be released seperately in a few weeks. Jeff Konkel of Broke and Hungry tells me "All of the songs [...]

• Pat Thomas - The Woman I Love