Multi-instrumentalist Joe Troop discusses how the parallels between the dirty politics in Latin America and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1970s inspired his latest work on the award winning podcast LEONARD: Political Prisoner.
Summary:
We chat with Grammy-nominated artist Joe Troop who explains how a banjo picker from North Carolina was called to write his new song “Free Leonard Peltier” after meeting a Lakota elder in the Patagonia Mountains.
Description:
Singer-songwriter Joe Troop details how he learned of Leonard’s story while living abroad in Argentina with his Grammy-nominated urban bluegrass band, Che Apalache. Hear Joe’s new single “Free Leonard Peltier” that was released in support of the American Indian Movement’s Walk to Justice, which will culminate in Washington, DC, with rallies and musical performances calling for clemency for America’s longest serving Indigenous political prisoner.