Singular Songs of the Seventies, Vol. 2: Great All-Native American Bands and Indigenous Singers

This new Retro Music series offers a genre-spanning selection of obscure and semi-obscure musical wonders from the 1970s, curated by a former DJ. A subscriber-only YouTube playlist is included.

ABOVE: Winterhawk.

Introduction

I don’t pretend to have a special expertise in Native American music—either popular or traditional—in the way I do British and American psychedelic music from 1966 to 1972, the subject of the twenty-five-volume “Lost Classics of the 1960s” series here at Retro Music.

But I know enough about the general shape of music history…