Biography
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Long live the blues.
*Pasatiempo's Best-"SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH"-2003 Best New Mexico Album
*Independent Music Awards-"JOSIE"-2005 Best Blues Song
Currently based in California, award winning blues duo WILDSANG makes a ton of sound for two people.They are a trip back in time from the twenty first century, singing the early years of the blues, folk and murder ballads. Soaring harp. Crying slide guitar. Scorching vocals. Real emotion. This is the Real Deal. It is also an answer to the old time male blues singers. It is feminist blues. Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton would be proud.
A Berklee College of Music alumni, Hillary Kay's roots are buried deep in the black musical tradition. Joe "King" Oliver (and his Creole Jazz Band), who was one of the originators of jazz music & was Louis Armstrong's mentor, is Hillary's great uncle and classical composer Ulysses Kay is her father. From her Freedom Rider mother Barbara Kay, Hillary learned the Freedom Song Tradition of the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by her love of the blues and the music of Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, Big Momma Thornton, Robert Johnson and Son House, Hillary acquired a 1933 National Resonator and embarked on what has become a life journey into the early blues.
Kate Freeman fell in love with the blues the moment she heard Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Momma Thornton in 1964. Next, she picked up a $2.00 Hohner Harmonica and never put it down. Shortly thereafter, the richness and spirit of the music from the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina's Piedmont Plateau got under Kate's skin and there began a lifetime love affair with the blues. A San Francisco native, Kate was surrounded by the musical greats of the Sixties. At any given time you could be jammin' or hangin' with The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin & Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield, or Moby Grape. You never knew who would be around the corner and music and magic were definitely alive and well. Kate dedicated her life to the blues over thirty-five years ago and this dedication has never wavered.
WILDSANG has shared the stage with and/or opened for - Taj Mahal, Ani DiFranco, Corey Harris, Gov't Mule, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Eliza Gylkison, Sophie B. Hawkins, Chris Williamson, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Buffy Saint Marie, Arlo Guthrie, Rick Danko of The Band, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin, Tony Furtado & The American Gypsies, Bill Dicey, Henry Butler, John McEuen of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Judy Mowatt of the I-Threes (Bob Marley's back up singers), Toshi Reagan, Janis Ian and Pete Seeger, to name a few.
Instrumentation
HILLARY KAY: Guitar & Vocals
KATE FREEMAN: Harmonica
Discography
WILDSANG:
SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH 2003
BLUES 2001
HILLARY KAY: EMBRACE THE MORNING 1999
All original songs - WILDSANG Music BMI
The CD'S - SKY DIRT SPEAK OUT TRUTH (2003) and BLUES (2001) - by WILDSANG, are currently being played on many National and International Radio Stations (see below).
A few favorite tracks receiving airplay are: Knockin, Josie, Aint No Strange Fruit, Baby Tight, Smokestack Lightning and Spoonful.
WILDSANG'S RADIO PLAYLIST
*The Santa Fe Opry
SANTA FE, NM USA
*Hillbilly Rockhouse - "ROOTS"
FM 95.6 / 95.2 / 99.3
GERMANY
*WRIR 97.3 LOST MUSIC SALOON
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA USA
*THEX.CA - 92.5 FM The X,
Kamloops Campus Community Radio
KAMLOOPS BC CANADA
*Alt.Country Cooking Radio
Winschoten, ETHER 106.2 FM
KABEL 105.0 FM
www.radiowinschoten.nl
THE NETHERLANDS
*WRNR 103.1 FM
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND USA
*WMPG 90.9 FM � 104.1FM
PORTLAND, ME USA
*HONKY TONK BLUES
The best BLUES, ROOTS and RHYTHM
LIVE on the Internet
http:/www.101fm.asn.au
AUSTRALIA
*COULEURS FM 97.1
www.couleursfm.com
FRANCE
*RADIO SFERA
Glosem Bluesa
The Voice of the Blues
TORAN POLAND
*JRRI
www.cafebar401.com
IRELAND
*Brawo 92.8 FM
Z Bluesem na Ty ("Blues 4 U�)
CIECHOCINEK, POLAND
*RADIO COTEAUX 104.5- 97.7 FM
SAINT BLANCARD FRANCE
*106.4 FM BOOM BOOM on Equinoxe
The radio ROCK
NAMUR BELGIUM
*Classic 21
BRUXELLES/BRABANT WALLON 93.2
NAMUR 90.8
CHARLERO/MONS 99.1
TOURNAI 104.6
LIEGE/VERVEIES 96.5
ARDENNES/LUXEMBURG 86.6
http://www.classic21.be
*Radio Active 105.9
LUZILLE, FRANCE
*Fm F�nix 93.1 mhz
www.fmfenix.com.ar
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
*Radio 99.1 �
CAEN FRANCE
*RADIO ARIA � 99.6
EMISSION "PULSIONS 70"
LONGWY CEDEX FRANCE
*Radio Canal Bleu 94.3 fm
OBJAT FRANCE
*Radio MILO 103.1 fm
BELGIUM
*Eqoinoxe la Radio Rock 106.4 fm
BELGIUM
*Rulof, Bluesiana Radio, 99.5 fm
THE NETHERLANDS
*"Dark Side of the Highway"
WFCS 107.7 FM
WIMBERLEY, TEXAS USA
*Highway 61"
radio show of Radio Voce Spazio
ALESSANDRIA, ITALY
*Keep It Country! NSEO 95.2 FM
PARIS, FRANCE
*NETTE RADIO
http://www.netteradio.com
*KZYX and Z Community Radio
91.5, 90.7 / www.KZYX.org
UKIAH, CALIFORNIA USA
*107.9FM "ROOTSTIME"
BELGIUM
Links
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