SONGS OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE
Canyon Records, 1977, C-6165
This is an album recorded in the field by Raymond Boley at Cibecue, Arizona in 1976. There is a brief introduction about the White Apache reservation and the songs themselves.
It's quite different from what we can hear among the Plains Indians for example. All the songs are led by a lead singer, male or female, and sung then by the group. A small percussion and bells are used to support the songs. Here there are several types of songs like ''horse songs'' or ''crown dance songs''. Horse songs seem to be important enough because there are seven of them out of fifteen tracks. The presentation text says that horses are ''spiritually blessed to ward off evil spirits''.
Canyon Records (https://canyonrecords.com) are still in activity with an impressive catalogue but some of their LPs have not been reissued.
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