Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Aztex Title: Short Stories Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Hightone Records Original Release Date: 9/14/1999 Release Date: 9/14/1999 Genres: Country, Pop, Rock, Latin Music Styles: Americana, Roots Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 012928810623 |
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Aztex are co-led by the husband-and-wife team of accordionist Joel Guzman and vocalist Sarah Fox, both respected veterans of Texas's regional Tejano industry. The band's debut album was produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin,... more » |
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Amazon.com Aztex are co-led by the husband-and-wife team of accordionist Joel Guzman and vocalist Sarah Fox, both respected veterans of Texas's regional Tejano industry. The band's debut album was produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin, who worked with Guzman and Fox on 1998's Grammy-winning Los Super Seven album. (That was Guzman playing all the accordion parts except for those songs featuring Flaco Jimenez.) Short Stories eschews modern Tejano clichés in favor of deep folk roots and crossover dreams. Fox shines on a version of Lydia Mendoza's 1947 classic "La Jaibera," while Guzman's solo on the traditional "Pajarrillo Barranqueno" solidifies his growing reputation as the best conjunto accordionist in Texas. Joe Ely trades harmony with Fox on a salsafied arrangement of his "Maybe, Maybe," and Guzman shows off some jazzy piano licks on the mambo "Why Don't You Love Me?" The band stumbles slightly on a couple of rock originals, but what Aztex do well, no one does better. --Rick Mitchell Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSolid stuff Ramiro | San Antonio, Texas | 06/13/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Los Aztex are a solid crew whose debut is an excellent voodoo fusion of tropical rhythms, roots music and bluesy tunes covering pretty much the same territory and more as Los Super Seven's folk roots outing last year. Like Los Super Seven's work, this 11-track collection of fresh and engaging bilingual tunes simply doesn't fit any preconceived radio formats. Luckily for Los Aztex , the singer/songwriter tradition in Texas has survived for years with artists like Don Walser, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Joe Ely, etc. They may not get much radio play but they sell CDs and they consistently draw crowds in dance halls and roadhouses.Music ultimately should move people, inspire sadness, reflection or elation, move them to tears or to the dance floor.Los Aztex do all that on "Short Stories." The tracks can be called anything from blues-salsa and tropical funk to R&B merengue and Afro-Cuban-tinged boleros. Whatever the tag, it connects."
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