Redbone's Come and Get Your Love peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974, making them the first Native American band to reach the top five. Brothers Patrick and Candido "Lolly" Vasquez-Vegas, of Yaqui, Shoshone, and Mexican heritage, formed the band with Peter DePoe, and Robert Anthony Avila (stage name Tony Bellamy), also of Yaqui-Mexican descent.
They released their first album Redbone in 1970. Their first major hit (and my favorite) was Witch Queen of New Orleans which was a single released from their third album, Message from a Drum.
In 1973, they released their fifth album Wovoka, which generated the single Come and Get Your Love, which became their biggest hit.
The same album generated the track We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee, which recalled the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by the 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1890. It reached #1 in the Netherlands but did not chart in the US due to it being banned by radio stations due to its political orientation and controversial subject.
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