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The "Come-On"
Spontaneous recording of the calls, whistles, shouted insults and
jokes with which the tourist or visitor is enticed into engaging
the band.
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings album #05014 1954)
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El Carretero (The Cart
Driver)
This is one of the best of the traditional sones and goes back probably
two centuries. The humorous words tell of a cart driver who wants
to start his journey toward various towns (a different one is named
in each verse)m but each time he is stymied by lack of something important:
a mule, a wheel of his cart, the reins, etc.
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings album #05014 1954)
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El Gusto (The Dark-Skinned
Girl)
Gusto is practically untranslatable. It means pleasure and excitement
and desire to share these emotions with others, all rolled into one.
The worlds of this son jaliscience refers to the excitement and good
feeling generated during the course of a marriage or birthday party,
with gusto of such proportions that even the dead revive to partake
of the fiesta atmosphere.
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings album #05014 1954) |
