Mean Woman Blues

 

Hopi Klansmen

Mean Woman Blues

 

From their first album issued in 1965 on the Indian Arts Of America label located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Hopi Clansmen began as four Hopi boys in the sixth grade at Intermountain Boarding School in Brigham City, Utah. This was in the 1950s, and they were budding musicians.

The band consisted of Ivan Sidney on guitar, Wallace Youvella on drums, Richard Twoitsie on bass, and the late Buddy Kooyquaptewa, who also played guitar.

"We all started at a very young age," Sidney recalled. "It was when we were going to school at the Phoenix Indian School in 1962 when we started playing down in the Valley. We played at all the Valley high schools back then."

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