The Chieftains, featuring Ry Cooder - San Patricio
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The mix of Irish and Mexican musical styles might seem a bit odd at first, but six-time Grammy winners The Chieftains will make you believers with their latest album, San Patricio (St. Patrick). With six-time Grammy winner Ry Cooder sitting and co-producing with Paddy Maloney, and guest appearances from the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Liam Neeson, Los Tigres del Norte, Chavela Vargas, Van Dyke Parks and Lila Downs, San Patricio may be the most vibrant and groundbreaking world music album to come along in some time. San Patricio tells the story of Irish immigrant conscripts in the US who deserted the US Army to fight on the side of the Mexican Army in the Mexican-American War in Villains in US history, the San Patricio battalion were heroes in Mexico, and their stories are brought to life on San Patricio.
San Patricio opens with the ebullient "La Iguana", guaranteed to have you dancing before its through. An introduction to Mexican culture for the Irish soldiers, "La Iguana" slowly infuses Celtic influence, culminating in the soldiers bringing in their own distinctive style of dance. "La
release, a musical collaboration between the Irish Folk legends, guitarist Ry Cooder and guests. San Patricio rekindles their Grammy winning partnership with Cooder, illuminating musical and historical bonds between Ireland and Mexico. The Album tells the nearly forgotten story of the brave San Patricio battalion, a downtrodden group of Irish immigrants who deserted the US Army to fight on the Mexican side in the Mexican/American War (). Features guest appearances from Lila Downs, Linda Ronstadt, Carlos Nunez, Moya Brennan, Lost Tigres Del Norte and others.
Track Listing:
- La Iguana
- La Golondrina
- A La Orilla de Un Palmar
- Danza de Concheros
- El Chivo
- San Campio
- The Sands of Mexico
- Sailing to Mexico
- El Caballo
- March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande)
- Lullaby for the Dead
- Luz de Luna
- Persecucion de Villa
- Cancion Mixteca (Intro)
- Cancion Mixteca
- Ojitos Negros
- El Relamago
- El Pajaro Cu
- Finale
Produced by Paddy Moloney and Ry Cooder
San Patricios: The Chiefains &#; Ry Cooder
What makes a saga, formal history? How does lore become fact? When bits and pieces &#; recollections, traditions, memories &#; find themselves laid down on the page, or passed down in oral yarns or song. Those are the chronicles that ensure longevity, a place in collective consciousness, a position within a canon.
Some stories elude the official narrative &#; by chance or by design. For Paddy Moloney, someone both steeped in and inextricable from Irish culture &#; its turbulent history, its voluble folklore, it&#;s very atmosphere &#; what vexed him was the fact that he grew up not knowing much at all about an unusual band of Irish soldiers known colloquially simply as the San Patrcios, a story that would seem a linchpin chapter in not just Irish but U.S. and Mexican history. How could a story about a band of daring Irish expatraites, who fought against America alongside the Mexican Army in the mids, slip so far into memory&#;s margins, live so far outside of history?
Conveying Ireland&#;s history and hardships through its legends, lullabies and laments, Moloney has been tending this very territory, both as a solo a
The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder San Patricio Review
In equal measure a curio, a lament, a history lesson and a hoedown, San Patricio is one of those albums that happily transcends its parts. If you only buy one Irish-Mexican album this year, in fact, The Chieftains and Ry Cooder should do you nicely.
The Californian guitarist and the Irish folk heavyweights are seasoned collaborators as well as inveterate globetrotters. It was while they were recording together in Havana in the s that the Irishmen introduced Cooder to the musicians who would star in his nostalgic world music bestseller, the Buena Vista Social Club.
This time, though, the focus is on another historical gem: the little-known story of the Irish conscripts who deserted from the American army to fight with Santa Anna’s Mexicans in the s border war. And while the first hearing of tin whistles with Mexican guitars is a little disorienting, Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney brews up a winning mixture.
Bumping cheeky mariachis up against Celtic ballads, and abutting the warm warble of Cooder’s tenor with the stately harmonies of Los Cenzontles, the stellar cast includes Linda Ronstadt (with a so
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