New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Where I Come from (CD) artist-paul-citone Fela Kuti spent decades as

Fela Kuti spent decades as Nigeria's most defiant voice

drew serious listeners

Sandwiched between the commercial noise of *Black Tie White Noise* and *Outside*

the pair co-wrote the 11 songs on El Dorado along with esteemed writers on various tracks including Pat McLaughlin

Hearing these original mixes restored to their intended sequence fills in a genuine gap in the unofficial canon that devoted listeners have been piecing together for decades

New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Where I Come from (CD) artist-paul-citone Fela Kuti spent decades asJohn Dawson founded New Riders of the Purple Sage out of the same late 60s San Francisco scene that birthed the Dead, with Jerry Garcia sitting in on pedal steel on their earliest recordings. By the time *Where I Come from* arrived in 2009, the band had been carrying that cosmic country torch for four decades, and the reunion of David Nelson with Robert Hunter, one of rock's great lyricists, gives this set a genuine sense of homecoming rather than