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Lila Downs
La Cantina
(Narada)
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Downs’ fifth CD focuses on smokey, emotion-drenched cantina songs (rancheras), backed by everything from electric guitars to a mariachi, and most wonderfully by accordionist Flaco Jimenez. Sad, funny, almost always over the top, Downs’ traditional choices and her own songs (even an ode to the women of southern Mexico’s Juchitan market in “Agua de Rosas”) are the music of life.
Larry Kelp








