The Current Music Blog: November 23, 2008 Archive

Calexico's amazing show!

Posted at 12:36 PM on November 23, 2008 by Bill DeVille (2 Comments)

There is something about the band Calexico that let's all your worries fade away for a few hours. Their music can transport you to a lonely highway in a vintage convertible with the top down in the sunshine somewhere near the border of Texas, Arizona & Mexico. It's a place I've never been, but feel like I have!

I was a little worried in 2006 when Calexico released the Garden Ruin. I thought moving away from their signature sound which blended country, mariachi, and spaghetti-western and so many other things into a more singer-songwriter oriented style. On the latest album, Carried to Dust, the band has returned to what it does best. It showed at last nights Fine Line show. The show was music to my ears. Their set was loaded with that Calexico sound they've honed and refined for more than a decade. The night was full of those mariachi horns, pedal steel guitar, Joey Burns' desperado vocals, John Convertino's amazing percussion & everything else you LOVE about Calexico!

Highlights included several from Carried to Dust album including, the soulful, "Inspiracion" sung & written by multi-instrumentalist Jacob Valenzuela, & Joey Burns songs like, "Writers Minor Holiday," & "House of Valporaiso" & "Two Silver Tree's." My personal highlight was their spot on cover of "Alone Again or" by Love.

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