The musicians changed, but you listen to Mark at times, and you'll hear the Jesse Ed influences in there, very strong. A 1988 tour as the opening act for the popular and highly politicized Australian band, Midnight Oil, gained Trudell and the Grafitti Band some mainstream exposure. In 1991, with Shark, Trudell recorded a third album, Fables and Realities. Signed to Rykodisc in 1992, Trudell was introduced to an international audience, receiving worldwide distribution for the first time with a re-make of his original AKA Grafitti Man, produced by Jackson Browne. Most recently, in 1998, Trudell was cast as the Radio DJ, in Sherman Alexie's award winning Sundance film, Smoke Signals.
Poetry is based on the oldest oral traditions.
And to me . I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human.