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Watts Little Angel Band

Watts Little Angel Band has been played on NTS in shows including Diddy Wah, featured first on 20 February 2017. Songs played include New Orleans / Land Of A 1000 Dances.

Watts Little Angel Band: After the Watts Riots in South Los Angeles in 1965, the working-class community suffered further with no improvements to the infrastructure, a lack of opportunity, and the rise of delinquency and gang-fuelled crime. In the early '70s, a community activist, Mike Joseph, discovered a group of children in Watts playing music using junk and scrap metal as instruments. He brought them into a studio in Los Angeles and produced a record…

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New Orleans / Land Of A 1000 Dances
Watts Little Angel Band
M.J. Records1971
New Orleans / Land Of A 1000 Dances
Watts Little Angel BandM.J. Records1971
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