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La Cantina
Artist: Lila Downs - (Audio CD) - 2006
 
 
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GRAN ARTISTA DE MEXICO, OAXACA Y DEL MUNDO
Excellent   2008-07-09 00:00:00    0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
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  (Read full review at Amazon)
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Encantada
Excellent   2008-05-07 00:00:00    0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
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...  (Read full review at Amazon)
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Hard to get around her voice
Good   2008-05-04 00:00:00    0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
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....  (Read full review at Amazon)
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too clever, I really mean it
Fair   2007-10-11 00:00:00    0 out of 0 found this reivew 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...  (Read full review at Amazon)
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Lila Down's la cantina
Good   2007-07-03 00:00:00    0 out of 0 found this reivew 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.  (Read full review at Amazon)
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La Cantina 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 norte?o,) 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