TRACK LIST

1. Free Your Mind

2. Spirit Song

3. Heartbeat

4. Makoce Wakan

5. Prayer Song

6. Desert Dream

BONUS TRACKS

7. Heartbeat Naaki

8. Border Crossing

9. Born On The Rez

ROBBY ROMERO | RED THUNDER 25th ANNIVERSARY comprises remastered original recordings, HEARTBEAT NAAKI (a remix of Robby’s Indian Country hit single, HEARTBEAT by Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and engineer, Steve Addabbo, with Al Kooper on piano, Ataahua PaPa and Dakhóta Romero on backing vocals), and Robby’s Indigenous stereotype-breaking PSA that won the CableAce Award as part of MTV’s ‘Free Your Mind’ campaign.

BORN ON THE REZ was recorded at Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood, CA, with three-time Grammy Award winning music engineer, Ed Cherney. The track was mixed by Grammy Award winner Steve Addabbo at Shelter Island Sound, New York City, mastered at by two-time Grammy winner Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, New York City, and executive produced by Laila Nabulsi and Dennis Banks.

Red Thunder lineup celebrates legendary session musicians Jim Cox (piano/vocals), Jim Keltner (drums/rattles/vocals), Danny “Kooch” Kortchmar, (guitar/vocals), and Don Was, (upright bass/vocals) — with Native American Film Award winner, Gary Farmer, (blues harp/vocals) and Grammy winner Robert Mirabal (Pueblo Flute/Vocals), The Water Protector chorus highlights singer/songwriters Victoria Asher, Ta'kaiya Blaney, Tina Malia, Bob Neuwirth, Dakhóta Romero, Chris Stills, Kholan Studi, Jimmy Lee Young, and Raye Zaragoza, with special guest Frances Fisher.

The original tracks on the 25th ANNIVERSARY release were produced by Stephen Croes, Rob Fraboni, and Robby Romero at The Complex, Los Angeles, CA, and Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY. Musicians include Benito Concha on traditional drums/vocals, Mazatl Galindo on traditional flutes/percussions/vocals, Charles Gasper and Paul Martinez on acoustic bass/vocals, Robby Romero on vocals/acoustic guitars/pueblo drums & rattles, with vocal appearances by Richard Moves Camp and Curtis Milk.

Lyrics

HEARTBEAT
Music & Lyrics by: Robby Romero

As the purple sunset fades are we really here alone
On the mainstream of the world relocated from our homes

And all that’s real seems so far away
Sacrificing tomorrow for yesterday

There’s a heartbeat louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat deep inside our mother
Are you to cool to care

You one so clever never speak too soon
You one who knows better to be sliding in and out of the room
With your friends close your enemies closer
Ah be careful now not to force her

There’s a heartbeat louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat deep inside our mother
Are you to cool to care

Rollback the darkness we’ve been blind for far to long
In this socialist, communist, democracy
It can’t be right when its all wrong

There’s a heartbeat louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat deep inside our mother
Are you to cool to care

There’s a heartbeat louder than thunder
There’s a heartbeat coming up from deep down under
There’s a heartbeat deep inside our mother
There’s a heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeat

Copyright © 1993 by Eagle Thunder Music

PRAYER SONG
Music & Lyrics by: Robby Romero & Bobby Neuwirth

Great spirit grant me vision that I may not go wrong
Or find myself in prison of things I have not done
Teach me the secret that I might see
Feel my heart with compassion to love my enemy

The winds of life blow in four directions
The sacred water flows to the sea
The eagle flys high as any mountain
Oh great spirit keep us free

Mother earth will feed our hunger
Father sky will love her well
Make me worthy of this vision
That no human tongue could ever tell

The winds of life blow in four directions
The sacred water flows to the sea
The eagle flys high as any mountain
Oh great spirit keep us free

Give me strength to learn the lessons
Make me wise to understand
What it takes to walk in beauty
As I learn to walk this sacred land

The winds of life blow in four directions
The sacred water flows to the sea
The eagle flys high as any mountain
Oh great spirit keep us free

Copyright © 1993 by Eagle Thunder Music

BORN ON THE REZ
Music & Lyrics by: Robby Romero

I was born on the reservation in 1973
On a trail of tears exiled in the land of the free
In the spirit of Crazy Horse
And our people buried at Wounded Knee

Across the waters of San Creek
Winter winds blow cold
From Cheyenne River to the Standing Rock stronghold
Where Sitting Bull lives on
And the struggle of our people unfolds

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

Ghost dancers thread the prairies of my mind
Dancing through history on smoke singles of time
As we fight for our lives against the black snake Dakota access pipeline

I was born on the reservation on a fateful Bigfoot ride
Hotchkiss cannons rang out unarmed men, women and children died
The Cannonball and Missouri rivers of tears our people cried

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

I was born on the rez in 1909
In a prison of unjust men who’s laws are not mine
In the spirit of Goyaałé Geronimo and water protectors on the front-line

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

I was born in Oceti Sakowin camp in 2016
During the largest spiritual resistance the world’s ever seen
My people they named me Mní Wičóni

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

Mní Wičóni Water is Life
Mní Wičóni Water is Life

Just got back from Standing Rock….

Copyright © 2016 by Eagle Thunder Music