Buena Vista Social Club (1997) (Feat. Ferrer/Gonzalez/Achoa )

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Label: Wea/atlantic/nonesuch
UPC: 00075597947823
Release Date: 9/16/1997
Buy.com Sku: 60266556
Item#: MPLDR4
Buy.com Sales Rank: 24555
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Chan Chan ~ Buena Vista Social Club
2. De Camino A La Vereda ~ Buena Vista Social Club
3. El Cuarto De Tula ~ Buena Vista Social Club
4. Pueblo Nuevo ~ Buena Vista Social Club
5. Dos Gardenias ~ Buena Vista Social Club
6. Y Tu Que Has Hecho? ~ Buena Vista Social Club
7. Veinte Anos ~ Buena Vista Social Club
8. El Carretero ~ Buena Vista Social Club
9. Candela ~ Buena Vista Social Club
10. Amor De Loca Juventud ~ Buena Vista Social Club
11. Orgullecida ~ Buena Vista Social Club
12. Murmullo ~ Buena Vista Social Club
13. Buena Vista Social Club ~ Buena Vista Social Club
14. La Bayamesa ~ Buena Vista Social Club

(p)1997 World Circuit
(c)1997 World Circuit

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Buena Vista Social Club: Compay Segundo (vocals, guitar, congas); Eliades Ochoa (vocals, guitar); Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, bongos, clave); Ry Cooder (acoustic & electric slide guitars, guitar, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion); Ruben Gonzalez (piano).
Additional personnel includes: Juan de Marcos Gonzalez (conductor, guiro, background vocals); Julio Alberto Fernandez (vocals, maracas); Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals, congas); Omara Portuondo (vocals); Benito Suarez Magana (guitar); Barbarito Torres (laoud); Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet); Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Salvador Repilado Labrada (bass); Joachim Cooder (drums, udu drum, dumbeck, conga); Alberto "Virgillo" Valdes (maracas, background vocals).
Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, March, 1996. Includes liner notes by Nick Gold and Nigel Williamson.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
That Ry Cooder, you've got to keep an eye on him every minute, or he jumps into another cross-cultural collaboration. In the wake of his landmark recordings TALKING TIMBUKTU with Ali Farka Toure and A MEETING BY THE RIVER with V.M. Bhatt comes BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, essentially a supergroup of traditional Cuban musicians with the addition of international agitator Cooder. Somehow, Cooder always finds just the right space to slide his sinuous slide guitar into, so that it works in almost any context. Here, amidst the multi-layered percussion, piano and Cuban guitar rhythms, Cooder's slide simultaneously finds a home and eggs the ensemble on. The natural beauty of the Cuban tonal and rhythmic palette is the real star of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, evoking both a sense of mystery and a feeling of intense emotional satisfaction.

Producer: Ry Cooder

Engineer: Jerry Boys

 
Artist Overview
L.A.-based guitarist Ry Cooder learned from the best, getting lessons from legendary bluesman Rev. Gary Davis at an early age. In the mid 1960s, he formed pioneering blues-rock band the Rising Sons with Taj Mahal. When that dissolved, he became an in-demand session player for everyone from Captain Beefheart to Randy Newman. He worked with the Rolling Stones in the late '60s, and nearly became Brian Jones's replacement. Over the years he released numerous quirky solo albums venturing into folk, blues, country, and even Hawaiian music. In the late '90s he instigated the Buena Vista Social Club project, getting veteran Cuban musicians together and presenting their sound to the world via shockingly successful albums, concerts, and a documentary.

Artist Influences
Arthur Alexander | Bix Beiderbecke | Blind Willie Johnson | Duane Eddy | Elizabeth Cotten | Elmore James | Etta Baker | Gabby Pahinui | Jelly Roll Morton | Joseph Spence | Leadbelly | Mississippi John Hurt | Reverend Gary Davis | Sleepy John Estes | Woody Guthrie

Artist Contemporaries
Ali Farka Toure | Dave Van Ronk | David Bromberg | David Grisman | David Lindley | Hot Tuna | John Fahey | John Hammond (Blues) | John Hartford | Kaleidoscope (USA) | Leo Kottke | Paul Geremia | Peter Rowan | Spider John Koerner | Taj Mahal

Artist Followers
Alvin Youngblood Hart | Brooks Williams | Charlie Hunter | Chris Thomas King | Corey Harris | Dire Straits | Euphoria (Electronica) | Gillian Welch | Guy Davis | Keb' Mo' | Little Feat | Los Lobos | Max Lasser | Robbie McIntosh Band | Robinella & The CC Stringband


 
Compilation Appearances
Greatest Songs Ever: world
Hecho En Cuba Series 3 Pack
Guitar Music For Small Rooms 2
World Circuit Presents

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/16/1997
Original Release Date : 1997
Catalog ID : 79478
Label : Nonesuch Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00075597947823

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (9/18/97, p.104)
- 3.5 Stars (out of 5)
- "...revisit[s] the lovelorn ballads, patriotic hymns and gentle son-based dance numbers heard in swank Havana lounges as far back as the 1920s....enduring reminders that in Cuba, the wisdom of the ages still counts for something."

Spin (9/99, p.156)
- Ranked #71 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Entertainment Weekly (10/03/97, p.85)
- "...The rhythms vary, but the sound is gentle yet flamboyant throughout. It brims with warmth." - Rating: B

Q (1/98, p.112)
- Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997."

Vibe (11/97, p.152)
- "...The beguiling fusion of Cooder's twangy slide guitar with the danzon and other, conga-tinged Afro-Hispanic rhythms...makes for an exciting multicultural marriage..."

Village Voice (2/24/98)
- Ranked #21 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.65)
- Ranked #23 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Witty, wistful, and above all wise."

  
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