It's Sunday, I have three cover versions worth sharing, so to save work, I'll put them in the same post. The fact that they feature female vocals, and that the composer of the first two songs influenced the composer of the third gives me an excuse of sorts for bundling them here.OK, the first two are in Lila Downs' "Medley: Pastures of Plenty/This Land Is Your Land" from her 2001 CD Border (La...
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In all the preparation of our baby's room, we lost track of a CD purchased some time ago, but have found it! The tune is Hanal Weech, sung in Mayan and Spanish (I think.) The lyrics tell the story of a man who thinks his girlfriend smells like an armadillo, done to a cumbia rhythm. "lyrics: You, beautiful womaneven though you are very attractivethe day will come, when I will leave youbecau...
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CD REVIEWLila Downs: Shake AwayI like to think that I'm the first to hear new global albums, but this one snuck up on me. I was listening to KAOS radio, and heard an eyebrow-raising version of Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" (which, frankly, I think of as a Santana song).Turns out it was Lila Downs and guest Raul Midon, from Downs' new album Shake Away. Her previous project was a collection...
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--- - |- "In the U.S., we've gone through a lot of fear. The idea was to heal, to 'shake away' the anger and hate. We also went through a lot of political trouble in my birthplace of Oaxaca, and sometimes we distance ourselves from the pain. We cannot forget or hide, but we must be positive. Since I was young, it's important for me to bring different people together, race-wise and religion-wis...
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