Things We Do

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Things We Do
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Studio album by Indigenous
Released 1 September 1998
Genre Rock
Length53:32
Label Pachyderm Records
Producer Indigenous, Brent Sigmeth

Things We Do is the first album from the band Indigenous, released in 1998 under the Pachyderm Records label. [1]

Indigenous is an American blues rock group that came to prominence in the late 1990s. The band originally consisted of two brothers, Mato Nanji (Maiari), Pte, along with their sister, Wanbdi, and their cousin, Horse (percussion).

In 1999, Indigenous won three Native American Music Awards for this record, including two top honors: Album of the Year and Group of the Year.

Native American Music Awards

The Native American Music Awards are an awards program presented annually by Elbel Productions, Inc., The Native American Music Awards Inc., and The Native American Music Association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in 1998, which recognizes outstanding musical achievement in styles associated with Native Americans, predominantly in the United States and Canada. While Native American performers in a variety of genres are also recognized, nominees do not have to be Native American themselves. The awards were created in 1998 to offer Native American musicians greater recognition from the American music industry and to create opportunities for international exposure and recognition.

A video for the lead single and title track, directed by Chris Eyre (acclaimed director of Smoke Signals), won the American Indian Film Festival award and was shown three times at the Sundance Film Festival. The track "Now That You're Gone" peaked at #22 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, making Indigenous one of the first Native American bands to break into that realm. Amazon.com named the band Blues Artist of the Year. Indigenous was featured on broadcast shows such as NPR's All Things Considered , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , CBS Saturday Morning and Austin City Limits . B.B. King became a self-proclaimed fan, and invited the band to join his Blues Festival Tour.

Chris Eyre, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, is an American film director and producer who as of 2012 is chairman of the film department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formation of the American Indian Film Institute.

Sundance Film Festival annual film festival held in Park City, Utah, USA

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With over 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The 2019 Sundance Film Festival began January 24 and ran through February 3.

Track listing

  1. Things We Do - 4:54
  2. Got To Tell You - 4:32
  3. Now That You're Gone - 3:54
  4. Blues This Morning - 3:24
  5. Bring Back That Day - 5:07
  6. Nothing I Can Do - 5:46
  7. Begin To Wonder - 3:36
  8. How Far - 5:11
  9. What's Goin' On - 3:32
  10. Don't Take Your Time - 3:05
  11. Holdin' Out - 5:14
  12. Another Yesterday - 3:07

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References

  1. Allmusic