Jim Pepper Witchitai-to

[zorroscuro]

A favorite for all these many years! Thank you for uploading.

[shankbone01]

thank you so much for this song

[jtubebx1]

There's a great online article about Jim Pepper that mentions "Witchi Tai To."

You can search for JUST A SONG JIM PEPPER WITCHI TAI TO

[ionahoopii]

Thanks for posting this. I was only familiar with a later version of this song recorded by Jim. RIP Jim, a beautiful cat.

[prematuredgreat]

so much respect for this song....

[mediushavoc]

FREE LEONARD PELTIER ,FREE ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER BEFORE ITS TOO LATE...

[sew6666]

Free Leonard Peltier. Long Live the Spirit Invoked. Listening to all night radio (Bob Fass, Steve Post), this song never left me. I haven't heard it for 39 years!

[0214hjalle]

searc for:

Witchi tai to , Jim Pepper Ullarobinlilly

On YouTube

[0214hjalle]

For many years I thought it was a Oregon original tune. I really love this version, It's make me always feel better, it's full of Vitamin positive.

[TheMage1127]

Wow, There are no dislikes! But I guess that should be expected ; )

And I still have the album.

[TheMage1127]

Wow, There are no dislikes! But I guess that should be expected ; )

[1234leca1]

Whats with the F'n saxophone???? Only Joking witcha...Its Raining!Love it.

[dicarlo57]

God bless the native American and may they live to inherit the Earth!

[deanslist101]

Fantastic song! I remember it well from when it was played on FM radio in NY. Never knew what the lyrics implied until recently and now it all makes sense. Jim Pepper played a great alto sax and Larry Coryell's guitar work really made this song sparkle. This is much better than the Brewer & Shipley version. Cut short at the end though. Bummer!

[Superniceone11]

A masterwork...

[northfourty]

I almost turned this off after a few seconds. Man am I glad I stayed! RED JAZZ, I love it.

[ededketra1]

free Leomard Peltier

[ededketra1]

free Leonard Peltier 36 years of injustice...

[crushable1]

First heard in Cleveland early 70's. A friend played it for me. I've never gotten it out of my head. I'll call him tomorrow. Thanks, Jim.

[merlinstwin]

Jim Pepper was a national treasure, who left us all too soon. Thank you for downloading his amazing music.

[CherrySlush1]

I love this. Pepper's Pow Wow is one of my most treasured albums.Thanks for uploading this!!

[lmorrisonification]

Thank you so much; my ears and heart are smiling listening to Jim Pepper's beautiful chant.

[holdersteven]

Im very greatful to the friend who uploaded this rare and fine jewel,The real deal of American origin

[MrKirkenstein]

i walk in the woods singing this song in time to my steps.

[mojogough]

Thank you, Jan Garbarek, for bringing Jim Pepper into my life!

[donaldnewmanmedone]

@mojogough Serendipity !

[sportcustm86]

song gets u in a good mood;



[sportcustm86]

love this song'''''''''''''''''

[tempachilles]

right on! heard it way back then on philly radio, 3rd street jazz (john diliberto at the register) didn't have it, already out of print. i think i first got oregon's version on a record and eventually the cd that jim pepper released but i believe that was a new version. just from hearing on the radio back then, i would go back to a field at night and sing it and dance under the stars.

[MoneysUncle]

I first heard this on WMMR, Philadelphia. TY Ed Sciaky!!

[DivingHawk1]

@MoneysUncle Me too, on Ed Shokey's Sunday night Retro show. Sometime in the mid 70's,

[glasseye49]

It make my heart soar like a hawk....

[MyCrunchyCookie]

My mom has been searching for this song to buy for her sister for 35 years so I just typed it into Youtube and it's brought tears to her eyes. ;) @dds682 she also heard it on WMMS when she was 12 :D

[braggville]

In the end of the 60's and early 70's this was played in the Boston area daily on WBCN the rock of Boston...before they went commercial....and they are NO MORE.....rock on Jim Pepper ...RIP...makes me feel glad I'm not dead... A true anthem to american rock n roll / jazz blues fusion....my copy was a freebie radio only airplay not for sale...

[DonnieRez]

Much thanks,Grizz! My Dad has this album when I was in my early teens. I can remember putting on his headphones ,shutting off the lights in the living room and listening to this song and it Always made me Proud I'm Native. Even now....if I'm at work and someone or something gets me down...I sing this to myself and get all pumped up inside!! Aho!!

[sportcustm86]

love this song''''''''''''''''

[BrianSamtur]

This features Larry Coryell on guitar, Billy Cobham on drums, Tom Grant on keyboards

and Jim Pepper on sax and flute among others. It was released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label. What a great recording. I remember hearing it first played on Michael Cuscuna's radio show in NYC on WPLJ.

[hanout7]

OMG me too, even the Harpers Bizarre version makes me cry

[sportcustm86]

feel the power

[rockawaychic]

This song has incredible power

[TheHairypaw]

First time I heard this tune was when BLF Bash ( Billy Freeman ) played it some late weekend night on WMMS of Cleveland, Ohio in the 70s....

[TheHairypaw]

@TheHairypaw .....love it!!

[dds686]

@TheHairypaw

I heard it on WMMS too. I had taken over the steroe Magnovox in out families living room. I was about twelve and WMMS (Kid Leo?) was the new low budget station. I have not heard this song since then until today. I really think this is a great tune. I played drums for a lot of bands and tunes like this one are what got me started in the "right direction."

[dds686]

@TheHairypaw

[dicarlo57]

There seem to be a few versions. Which one played in the casino?

[youtoober19125]

How ironic....this song is on the Musac speakers in the Mohegan Casino.

Pepper is rolling in his grave.

[westernmountains]

the piano and guitar playing at the beginning of this cut slayed me, what a spirit goin round my head. And after all who was not ready for some saxophone in 1972? I could not get the chant out of my head for days, searched for years until I could buy my own copy of this disc which I still own 38 years later.

[dicarlo57]

Worlds finest music. Anyone who doesnt agree with me is full of shit

[viewmore100]

@dicarlo57 Seems like you're full of the spirits again lame brain. (Jack Daniels,Budweiser....Etc.)

[johnbleroy]

Very nice. This album is so very hard to find. Lost my vinyl LP many years ago.

Could someone post the complete Wichi-tai-tai track, though? This one has been cut short and ends abruptly. I remember that the original transitions into a vocal chant. Then, of course, you can just play the track as a loop for an hour or three to clean out your mind. Many thanks for the upload!

[andatvp]

Das gut ! Runnn through my veins

[andatvp]

So much spiritual force incoming . Fight spirit. Das gut !

[ehswan]

He has somehow found joy.

[vveq]

Jim has summoned the spirits. We all must dance now...

[Timewillcome]

the album of this music was named "pepper's pow wow"?

thanks.

[rosemaryipf]

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[grizzrocks]

Due to all the listens to this song i have decided to upload the whole Pepper's Pow Wow album for all of Jim's fans to listen to.

Hope You Enjoy!

[DivingHawk1]

@grizzrocks So Great!!! Thanks. The #1 Artist so few know!!

[54taqiyya]

@grizzrocks i had this way long ago. thanks!

[rockawaychic]

@grizzrocks

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!! I needed this today (*tears)

[brunets4]

@grizzrocks Thanks very much, I needed this. Lost my copy many years ago. I feel so much better knowing I can hear this whenever again. So moving!

[justbeamensch]

Play on, brother! Make the spirits dance...........

[zoec1969]

doesn't get any better......the memories

[TheDBER]

special....very special.......really.

[failur2communicate]

If there were music playing during the beginning of life on this Earth, it would be this amazing, timeless song!

[MoneysUncle]

Ahhh, memories. The Intel, Carol, Minnow, John. Great!

[doncirelli]

Found the English translation (which is in the song, actually):

Water spirit feelings Springin' round my head Makes me feel glad That I'm not dead

[MrKirkenstein]

many thanks for posting this version.  first heard it in 71 (WVBR in Ithaca). it stuck with me since giving a lot of happy thoughts along the way.

HOMAGE.

[tjcoyote59]

One of my all time favorites. Thanks for posting this.

[BenjaminFranklin99]

Jim's song breaths life and joy. How can anyone listening to this get onto a rant? Pay attention! Hear what he is giving us! Thanks, Jim and friends!

[DEADMAN780]

about 4 years ago i downloaded this song from thin lizzy he did a cover of it. ive alwaysed wondering what the Native American words are. if there is a english translation can someone let me know please thank you :)

[drbluz]

Thanks so much. Found my 20 year old transcription and so wanted to hear it again. So powerful, makes me cry and ... very glad I'm not dead. Here's to Jim Pepper & His Spirit and to All of Us that forget sometimes. Witchitia To Friends!

[scenerenity2]

Fantastic....finally found it! Thanks so much for posting. This lyric has gotten me through some rough times.......even though I remembered it a little "off". There is such a wonderful, sweet, power about it. Ageless, yet new.......awesome!

[Charles310872]

best version of this song ! Jim Pepper yeah!

[dicarlo57]

All we ever hear is this holocaust bullshit, the only holocaust I know of is the plight of the Native American. The most peacfull, spiratual people that ever existed. Only to be slaughtered by slave trading syphilis bearing pilgrims and W.A.S.P.s

[viewmore100]

@dicarlo57 You're an ignorant, insensitive turd. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." Your comparison is incoherent, skewed and seems to be fueled by alcohol.

[dicarlo57]

@viewmore100 Ignorant is a term that best fits anyone who believes what the media tells them. My comparing a gross exaggeration to the genocide of native Americans can hardly be termed "ignorant".

[viewmore100]

@dicarlo57 Media ? Gross exaggeration ! Please do yourself and mankind some good and read a HISTORY book about the Holocaust. Journey from the safety of your native soil to visit and experience other countries and cultures so you can broaden your soul and what's left of your closed and limited mind.

[TheEliteDevil]

Awesome song. People who don't appriciate history are dicks. Plus it's a cool language.

[VassilisArt]

JIm Pepper was great and original

All the tone colour that has made.. Gato Barbieri and Garbarek famous, is due to him

[ndnpony]

I think it's funny how ignorant some folks seem to want to stay. I'm Jim's cousin. Too bad you can't really hear the spirit of Jim's music.

[fmouse2]

Sheesh! Pepper was a buddy of mine back in the 70's, and we played in a band together in Colorado for a short while. If he were alive and read all of these comments he'd be laughing at the lot of you ;-)

[fmouse99]

Peppers Pow Wow is now available as a CD!!

[OldPhilnick]

Please post a link to where I can get it!

[fmouse2]

I have trouble posting to this forum. Please send me a private message and I'll give you the link.

[ehswan]

The "Red People" seem to refuse to die.

[MrBravo222]

pass the peyote pipe

[NokoseHerusat]

asshole

[nightimelady]

this is a very special song, thanks for uploading it, and thank you jim pepper for giving us this wonderful music.

[ehswan]

Brilliant, filled with life, beautiful, living grand wonderful, makes me feel glad. seriosly GOOD MUSIC.  Thank You.

[TheThinkingMan12]

I heard this song once in the early seventies, and it has stuck with me every since. I have been searching for this version for a long time. Many thanks to the poster and to all who enjoy music from the heart!

[DSVOP]

I found this album in a second hand store in Bruce Grove, London, in 1972...paid 50 pence for it, and I loved it,

I left the album on the mv.Mi Amigo, by accident, in 1976, and i believe it is on the Tames Estuary sea bed....Jim Pepper would approve.

[Rikk303]

well, tough shit, pepper is salted

[dicarlo57]

Think about all the W.A.S.P. assholes who brag about ancestors comming over on the mayflower-I can honestly say that my ancestors never enslaved anyone. And all we here about is the Jews and their holohoax- the red man truly suffered, and they cry the least- God bless the red man, the most spiratual people in the world

[FRANKSBESEK]

I always said that the Red Man was the most persecuted people. They were raped, pillaged and plundered and killed and to this day are forced to live on reservations and cannot go in a bar. We stole their land and then you hear all the different foreigners coming over here and complaining of slavery or whatever. If it is so bad here, go home and change "YOUR" country into what your idea of how it should be. I am 58

[penrod59]

As a W.A.S.P. and part-time asshole I resent your holocaust denial. I married a red girl (Aztec) and you suck. I hate anti-semites.

[dicarlo57]

Im not claiming that the holocaust didnt take place, but probably about 70% of what the Jews claim took place was a lie.I have known ethnic Germans who were there and tell a much different story. Stating this as the case hardly makes me antisemetic

[OldPhilnick]

I have (or had) an original vinyl lp of this when it came out (different album cover, though - it was more of gray image with only a little color). It has always been a favorite of mine too - when it came out I was a jazz dj on my college radio station and loved playing it on the air. Too bad this track cuts off abruptly at the end!

[bitnola]

Yeah!

Heard this in the early 70s in Baton Rouge, but probably a different version. DJ said it was on a tape and not released yet. May have heard this two or three times in my life, but never forgot it.

Looked, and bought other versions (kinda like the Jan Garbarek version, but it ain't the same). Thanks so much for posting this great song. But still looking for that magical version I heard over 35 years ago.

[cyrensong]

lulululululululululu!!!!!

[hughdjunit]

Straight up, no mixer......THANK-YOU

[bzzzzap]

This song made me cry by the end. I don't know why.

[Bruneio]

Me too! I don't know, either. Just that it's good stuff!

[uolztube]

@bzzzzap ... I can understand..

[uolztube]

@bzzzzap ..I can understand..

[brunets4]

@bzzzzap , You're not alone, makes me cry every time I hear it!

[VoxJoxx]

@bzzzzap omg yeah why? so good too.  Witchitai-to

[Bruneio]

@bzzzzap Me too! It's that powerful!

[unemployabledrunk]

this is the version that i remember from 1971(?) one of the best pieces of music i think i've ever heard! (and it makes me feel that I'M not dead!) ust really good stuff!

[c2london]

I first heard this in 1971, too, and I've been searching for a recording ever since. I heard it once, in my dorm room, and fell in love with it. Finding this recording almost brought tears to my eyes. I love youtube!!! Now I just need an actual recording.

[owlcowl]

c2london: "Pepper's Pow Wow" was finally reissued on CD in 2007 on Wounded Bird Records -- # WOU 731. The original 1971 LP release on Embryo is expensive and hard to find, but look for it on eBay. Pepper made at least three other recordings of the tune which are now available in the digital medium, and there are numerous cover versions by Jan Garbarek, Oregon, Brewer & Shipley, etc. But of course, nothing matches Jim's own heartfelt, immortal creation.

[thewestwoods]

@c2london i got one on Ebay about five years ago!

[johnmcmns199]

@c2london Me too. fell in love with this song in 1971, been in love with it ever since

tears of joy right now as I write this. I grew up in Portland Oregon not far from his house, the music is an accurate translation of the spirit of the area. Shame what we're doing to the planet eh? We must stop! All of us. Now!

[309090959]

K'Chi Miigwech! Music of the people, a song for the creator, just can't help but join in no matter what nation. Soul food!

[dicarlo57]

At long last, Worlds finest music. Thanks for posting. Is there any way in hell this might be available on C.D.?

[owlcowl]

dicarlo57: YES! It was released on CD in 2007 on Wounded Bird Records -- label no. WOU 731, manufactured by Rhino. Available at Amazon. As you can imagine, the original 1971 LP release on Embryo is quite a collectors item now. I'm extremely fortunate to have both. Also check out the version on Pepper's "Comin & Goin" album.

[dicarlo57]

Thank you.

[gggiraffe]

This recorded version, with these brilliant musicians, is so great, so awesome, it's a shame that the visual aspect is neglected in the clip...just watching the album cover leaves much to be desired.

[Jzwandering]

I'm sitting here singing and playing the guitar with this song. A long lost feeling of hope has overwhelmed me in this moment. An emotional spiritual experience for sure. You see I have been enduring health problems for many many years. The lyrics " makes me feel glad I'm not dead" hit me square in the heart. Thank you grizzrocks and most of all thank you Jim Pepper. Your spirit lives on through your music. PEACE

[unemployabledrunk]

well put! (me, too!)

[fmouse99]

There are other clips out there of Jim playing the sax. This was done in 1969 or so.

[CloudPainters101]

awesome...