| San Patricio |  | Artists: The Chieftains, Ry Cooder
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6,727
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 31321
UPC: 888072313217
EAN: 0888072313217
ASIN: B0033AX26I
Release Date: March 23, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | La Iguana - with Lila Downs | | • | La Golondrina - with Los Folkloristas | | • | A la Orilla de un Palmar - with Linda Ronstadt | | • | Danza de Concheros - with Los Folkloristas | | • | El Chivo - with Los Cenzontles | | • | San Campio - with Carlos Núñez | | • | The Sands of Mexico - with Ry Cooder | | • | Sailing to Mexico - with Carlos Núñez | | • | El Caballo - with Los Camperos de Valles | | • | March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande) - with Banda de Gaita de Batallón, Liam Neeson, Los Cenzontles and L.A. Juvenil | | • | Lullaby for the Dead - with Moya Brennan | | • | Luz de Luna - with Chavela Vargas | | • | Persecución de Villa - with Mariachi Santa Fe de Jesus (Chuy) Guzman | | • | Canción Mixteca (Intro) - with Ry Cooder | | • | Canción Mixteca - with Los Tigres Del Norte | | • | Ojitos Negros - with Los Cenzontles | | • | El Relampago - with Lila Downs | | • | El Pájaro Cu - with La Negra Graciana | | • | Finale - with Los Cenzontles, Carlos Núñez, Los Folkloristas, Banda de Gaita de Batallón and L.A. Juvenil |
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| Customer Reviews:
 San Patricio April 14, 2010
Ronald Pilfrey (Newmarket, ON, Canada)
I loved this record. I have been a long time fan of The Chieftains and have most of their work. However, in spite of the genius of Paddy Maloney in meshing the Irish and Mexican it's the wonderful variety of Mexican music and artists that stands out. The only selection that doesn't fit, unfortunately, I think, is Ry Cooder's long ballad about the San Patrick regiment since musically it's neither Irish nor Mexican.
 Moving, nostalgic, captivating. A "must" listen ! April 2, 2010
peterhoof (London, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Chieftand are known for their adventurousness and in the past they have matched their rousing Irish traditional playing with styles from across the world, recording with Spanish musicians, Chinese folk bands or country, bluegrass and rock celebrities from Alison Krauss to Van Morrison or the Rolling Stones.
The Chieftains' new album "San Patricio" (Spanish for St. Patrick) is a musical tribute to the Irish volunteers known as the San Patricio battalion who defected from the US army to fight with the Mexicans in the US-Mexico war in the mid-19th century, and who were later executed as deserters.
As a result, it has everything on it, from traditional Mexican musicians to Linda Ronstadt, Los Tigres Del Norte and actor Liam Neeson. And The Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney brews up a winning mixture.
"San Patricio" is very much a Paddy Moloney's project: he has had the San Patricio story working away in his imagination for almost 15 years, "thinking all the time there would have been music and in the music there'd be a shared history".
He has always been a musical wanderlust, intrigued by the journeys of the Irish Diaspora. The San Patricio story has given him an opportunity to work with a host of original Mexican artists from both sides of the border. Their vibrant music - embodied in thriving local traditions - embraces myriad irresistible folk styles.
The resulting meeting of Irish and Mexican cultures reveals that the two countries have a shared affinity for haunting melodies and catchy dance rhythms played on fiddles, harps, guitars, flutes, whistles, brass and percussion of all sorts. It is a cross-cultural mélange that Celtic Connections was born for.
The Californian guitarist Ry Cooder and the Irish folk heavyweights are seasoned and inveterate globetrotters.
Moloney and Cooder have collaborated before, notably in 1995 when Cooder added his distinctive slide guitar sound to the Chieftains' "Long Black Veil". Moloney later played flute on Cooder's "My Name Is Buddy (the Cat)" project.
It was while they were recording together in Havana in the 1990s that the Irishmen introduced Ry Cooder to Cuba and to the musicians who would star in his nostalgic world music bestseller, the Buena Vista Social Club.
Clearly enjoying himself, Cooder blends happily into the crazy mixture of Mexican, Irish, Spanish and Scottish all around him. His new song, the splendid "The Sands of Mexico", an imagined soldier's letter home, is a lovely slip-sliding thing, and he also plays a beautiful instrumental version of an old Mexican song about exile and longing before the band takes it up.
The music blends Irish uilleann pipes, whistle and fiddles with Mexican guitars, banjo and trumpets, and the cast of singers ranges from Linda Ronstadt (with a song learned from her Mexican grandfather), the legendary arranger Van Dyke Parks, the sensational Mexican singer Lila Downs, Moya Brennan from Clannad, the extraordinary, passionate 90-year-old ranchero star, Chavela Vargas and battalions of crack instrumentalists.
Among the highlights are the ribald capering of Latin Grammy winners Los Tigres del Norte, and the mournful, sashaying bolero sung by Chavela Vargas.
A beautiful, moving, nostalgic, captivaing album!
Many Grammys are in the cards!
Enjoy!
Long Black Veil
My Name Is Buddy
Buena Vista Social Club
Linda Ronstadt: Canciones De Mi Padre - A Romantic Evening in Old Mexico
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