FANTASTIC NEGRITO SPOKE WITH ANTHONY MASON
AND PERFORMED "THE DUFFLER," "PLASTIC HAMBURGERS,"
"A COLD NOVEMBER STREET" AND "DARK WINDOWS"
ON
CBS THIS MORNING: SATURDAY
WATCH "THE DUFFLER" HERE
WATCH "PLASTIC HAMBURGERS" HERE
WATCH "A COLD NOVEMBER STREET" HERE
WATCH "DARK WINDOWS" HERE
Back from a triumphant appearance at Newport Folk Festival, Fantastic Negrito and his band performed "The Duffler," "Plastic Hamburgers," "A Cold November Street" and "Dark Windows" from his new album PLEASE DON'T BE DEAD on CBS This Morning: Saturday. In an in-depth interview, Negrito tells CBS News' Anthony Mason, "I always look at my journey like it's the American dream."
WATCH FANTASTIC NEGRITO'S INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY MASON HERE
There is desperation and urgency in Fantastic Negrito's new album PLEASE DON'T BE DEAD. For anyone who ever felt like it was over yet hoped it wasn't, this is your music.
"When you've been a small-time drug hustler, experienced a brush with death, a false start as a major label artist, and life as a busker, you're well-positioned to sing the blues - as Fantastic Negrito does on his incendiary, consciousness-raising new album, Please Don't Be Dead."
"Negrito puts himself in the middle of the fray with Please Don't Be Dead ...and offers his songs for the soundtrack of the lives of those who won't give up and are willing to carry on."
"Over a series of heaving, stomping riffs, it's a cranked-up, slow-grinding attack on addiction and consumerism with a chant-along chorus: "Let's break out these chains/Let's burn it down."
- Jon Pareles, New York Times
"Last year, he won a Grammy for the Best Contemporary Blues Album for 2016's Last Days of Oakland. The new album (Please Don't Be Dead), with its intense fervor, should make that two years in a row."
- Bob Boilen, NPR
"With its greasy guitar stomp and falsetto vocal delivery, "The Duffler" fills the middle ground between modern protest music for the political rally and sweaty, sexed-up baby-making music for the bedroom."
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