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La Cantina | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lila Downs
Label: Narada
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 8501
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 34248
UPC: 094633424821
EAN: 0094633424821
ASIN: B000EHQ7WY
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | La Cumbia del Mole - Lila Downs, Downs, Lila | | • | El Corrido de Tacha "La Teibolera" - Lila Downs, Downs, Lila | | • | Agua de Rosas - Lila Downs, Downs, Lila | | • | Tu Recuerdo y Yo - Lila Downs, Jimenez, Jose [1] A | | • | La Cama de Piedra - Lila Downs, Traditional | | • | El Relampago - Lila Downs, Traditional | | • | Penas del Alma - Lila Downs, Leal, Felipe Valdes | | • | La Tequilera - Lila Downs, Sotelo, Alfredo D'O | | • | Pa' Todo el Ano - Lila Downs, Jimenez, Jose [1] A | | • | El Centenario - Lila Downs, Lara, Mario Quinter | | • | La Noche de Mi Mal - Lila Downs, Jimenez, Jose [1] A | | • | Arboles de La Barranca - Lila Downs, Traditional | | • | La Cumbia del Mole - Lila Downs, Downs, Lila | | • | Yo Ya Me Voy - Lila Downs, Traditional | | • | Amarga Navidad - Lila Downs, Jimenez, Jose [1] A |
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As a follow-up to her 2005 Latin Grammy win, Mexican-American diva Lila Downs has chosen to release a loving tribute to canciones rancheras, the heartfelt ballads ubiquitous in cantinas throughout Mexico. With their merry accordion riffs and perky snare-led rhythms, the tunes can be reminiscent of Cajun music or Colombian cumbias, but even the cheeriest numbers harbor fate-haunted undertones. The singer's darkly sweet, resonant voice interprets each the fifteen tracks to a fare-thee-well. Her fiery South-of-the-border exhibitionism and touches of dry humor are mirrored by assorted comedic whiz-bang sounds that surface amid the mostly acoustic mix. Third generation accordionist Flaco Jimenez, the doyen of Tex-Mex conjunto (a working class style descended from an older but still extant groove known as norteno,) weaves in and out among bass, harps, mariachi-like fiddles and assorted guitars. Peppered with antique-sounding bytes, dramatic spoken poems and even an in-your-face rap (during "Tu Recuerdo Y Yo", track four), the album plays like a slightly surreal movie that is no less affecting for being nearly untranslatable. --Christina Roden
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 GRAN ARTISTA DE MEXICO, OAXACA Y DEL MUNDO July 9, 2008
Solo quiero decir que Lila es una Diosa Oaxaquena, una super persona, gran artista, gran mujer, de ellos queremos mucho mas, hay que abrir los ojos a artistas que ademas cantan nos dan un mensaje en cada una de sus canciones
Encantada May 7, 2008
Not being a huge fan of Mexican music, except those old favorites from the forties and fifties, I have become enchanted with her voice and purposes and her showmanship. The production, by her husband, Paul, was first rate - love those electric drums!
She has exceptional voice control. As a University of Minnesota grad in Music and Anthropology, she learnt plenty in addition to her native talent. I first heard of her from a poster outside a used record store on JFK Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Planet Records. She had a gig at Passim, the hole in the cellar on Church Street where Joan Baez once sang.
These songs are nearly hypnotic - you won't be able to take your iTunes program off repeat this album. The one I didn't like was one that might fall in the PC category for her: the group vocal sung after harvest. I wanted to hear her voice, not anyone else's.
There are songs she wrote, traditional songs, and others. Even if you are a Yankee, you'll love this. Fix yourself some tequilla, kick off the shoes, and luxuriate in her sound.
 Hard to get around her voice May 4, 2008
Jack of all trades, master of none, I've never been able to get around Lila Downs' voice. Like Sade on Prozac.
This album has some of my all time favorite songs, specifically Cama De Piedra, which still makes me cry when I hear it. But this version is just annoying.
Bravo to her for tackling some new things though and I do wish her success. It's just that it's hard going for me getting around her voice and interpretations of songs.
For comparison, and to see where I'm coming from, compare the Spanish singer, Maria Dolores Pradera's interpretation of Pa' Todo El Ano to Downs'. Or Amalia Mendoza's interpretation of Amarga Navidad.
 too clever, I really mean it October 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
While there is no shortage of talent, her style and the overall production is a little too tongue in cheek for me. I wish she had performed these songs with less affectation. More heart and less concept would have made this a more lasting album and a greater achievement. She's a gifted artist, but she needs to trust the music more and not try to trick it out like this. The result sounds like parody even if her intentions towards the music were more honorable than that.
Lila Down's la cantina July 3, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love Lila Down, but not being mexican, this is not my type of music. My mexican friends of certain age (not very young) give it 5 stars.
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