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Spoke

Calexico | Format: Audio CD

4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews) |

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“A band has got to keep changing and moving or it will get boring and break up,” says CALEXICO’s John Convertino. Fortunately CALEXICO have barely stopped moving for nearly fifteen years. Even when they’re not on the road – and this band tours hard – they’re recording: for themselves, with others. It’s a tradition that Tucson, Arizona residents Joey Burns and Convertino – the engine that drives… Read more in Amazon's Calexico Store

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Product Details

Audio CD (August 12, 1997)
Original Release Date: August 12, 1997
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Quarter Stick
ASIN: B0000037OP
In-Print Editions: Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Media Type: CD
Artist: CALEXICO
Title: SPOKE
Street Release Date: 08/12/1997
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Genre: ROCK/POP

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strangely addictive, November 17, 2000

Dana Sixty (Canada) - See all my reviews

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I have to agree with all of these reviewers, save for the one who didn't like this release. This is a beautiful concoction of thoughtful-western-meets-tearful-traditional-Mexican beauties, worth listening to repeatedly. It doesn't jump out at you, but lures you in gently like a curious whisper. Everyone I played this CD for loved it and promptly went out to buy it. I suggest you do the same.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for driving through the desert at night, November 29, 2000

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This IS Calexico's first album, Philip W. Black Light (their 2nd release) is a great album, but I prefer the lo-fi charm of the more soft-spoken tunes that make 'Spoke' Calexico's best album.

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5.0 out of 5 stars different...but the same., March 22, 2004

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This is not the lush cinematic Calexico of the other albums, This is much more folksier and gritty, and for that it stands alone in its sound. The framework is there for what would come later but there is no pedal steel or horns. All in all it is great, and Id also suggest Commited soundtrack or the Road Map cd from the bands website for a similar sound.

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5.0 out of 5 stars early work
Calexico's early work has some of the same meoldies they elaborated on later, recorded either at home or in a makeshift studio actually adds to the flavor of this album nd makes... Read more

Published 2 months ago by HosD18

2.0 out of 5 stars Fumbling towards focus
A lazily haggard introduction into what would become a potently cultivated sound, it would still take another disc to develop into something that would persevere.

Published on January 6, 2010 by IRate

3.0 out of 5 stars It's really an experimental thing
I had the good fortune of seeing Calexico live recently, and they put on quite a good show. I've been a casual fan for a while but bought this CD after the Iron & Wine... Read more

Published on December 29, 2005 by JG

5.0 out of 5 stars desert cool
I have all of Calexico's full-length CDs and they're all excellent. Hard to nominate a single CD as their best, but if I were forced to, Spoke would be it. Read more

Published on November 19, 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre compared to 1st
After loving "Black Light" and finding that almost everyone I played it for felt the same, I was disappointed in "Spoke. Read more

Published on November 2, 2000 by Joseph Foosh

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre compared to 1st
After loving the first Calexico cd and finding that almost everyone I played it for felt the same, I was disappointed in "Spoke. Read more

Published on November 2, 2000 by Joseph Foosh

5.0 out of 5 stars I could listen forever
This is a spaghetti western lo fi arizona chili beauty. The sound of a dirt road, a canteen, and some peyote bottons, transplanted to your barstool or the platform of your subway... Read more

Published on February 22, 1999 by subskin@earthlink.net

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