One Track Mind: Papa Mali & The Instagators, "Man Of Many Words"

by Pico

It was a tough call to make: do I pimp Papa Mali's entire 1999 release Thunder Chicken or just quickly gush over just one of the tracks? There's certainly enough tasty bits in Chicken to justify the full unpaid advertisement (and come to think of it, I already wrote the first review of it in Amazon more than six years ago), but I'm going to take the easy way out and focus on Mali's Buddy Guy cover "Man Of Many Words".

Malcolm "Papa Mali" Welbourne hails from that mini music mecca called Shreveport, Louisiana. Yeah, you read me right; this is the place where John Campbell and Brian Blade also came from. Mali learned his blues from Campbell and later honed his reggae chops as a member of local Austin, TX favorites The Killer Bees and is still based out of Austin, today.

Given the potent mixture of creole, blues, rock, funk, reggae and God knows what else that makes up his musical profile, Papa seamlessly blends it all together like the veteran musician he's become by the time he put together his Instagators in the nineties.

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