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Track Listings

1	Mi Corazon Me Recuerda
2	El Feo
3	Sale Sobrando
4	Corazoncito Tirano
5	La Nina
6	Hanal Weech
7	Medley: Pastures Of Plenty/This Land Is Your Land/Land
8	La Linea
9	El Bracero Fracasado
10	Transito
11	Smoke (Acteal)
12	La Martiniana
13	Soy Pescador
14	La Llorona
15	Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

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This music is dedicated to the Mexican migrants, to the spirits of those who have died crossing the line. Accompanied by pre-Colombian and Mexican folk instruments, Lila Downs' provocative voice and lyrics create powerful music in any language.

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Singer-songwriter Lila Downs uses these 15 compositions (both originals and covers) to explore the joys and sorrows experienced by Mexican immigrants who cross the border for a better life only to experience exploitation and racism in this country. A child of a Mixtec Indian mother and Anglo-American father, the talented Downs brings in a fresh perspective from two cultural worlds. She imbues the Mexican cumbia style--which is itself a variation on a Colombian form of dance music integrating Latin, Native American, and African styles--with blues, jazz, and even a little hip-hop as pre-Colombian and Mexican percussion nestles comfortably with strings and electric guitar, piano, and bass. Lila Downs is a wide-ranging singer who passionately expresses her melancholic subject matter without lapsing into melodrama, and with this album she crosses musical borders of her own. --Bryan Reesman

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches; 4 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Narada World
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 26, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Narada World
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005LNE0
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #144,191 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #12 in Mexican Cumbia
- #22 in Cumbia (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,663 in Latin Pop (CDs & Vinyl)

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Nicholas Wilson

Lila Downs does classic northern Mexican folk

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2013

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I discovered Lila Downs only several months ago, but I quickly realized I had to have all of her albums. This is one of her earlier ones, featuring classic traditional and folk styles of northern Mexico. I like it, but don't find it as interesting as some of her later work, like Tree of Life, or Pecados y Milagros (Sins & Miracles), which just won a couple of Grammys.

Lila is a great singer. She's got the pipes, and she knows how to use them. She's half Mexican Indian, half anglo-American, and grew up first with her singer mother in Oaxaca, then in the U.S. her university professor father. She got her degree in classical vocal music, and she's a fine musician and performer.

I grew up on the Texas-Mexican border in the 1940s and '50s, so I've heard a ton of Mexican music. Lila is right up there with the very best singers and musicians. She doesn't just stick with the old classics, but also writes a lot of new music, some of it with her pianist husband Paul Cohen. Her more recent albums blend in dance rhythms and styles from many other Latin American cultures, and non-Latin as well.

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P. P. Nunez

Always the best.

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2013

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The best artist in the world. Not only has she a prodigious voice but the quality of her musicians together with the beauty and depth of the lyrics makes her absolutely unique. Own 4 other albums and I adore every single one of it.

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JoeRad

Superb. This was a replacement for a lost copy.

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2014

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Lila is always excelent. I have most of her CD's.Would love to see her in concert sometime. I listen to this one often.

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THOMAS C. BIAGI

Lila Downs Border

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2016

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Again: Why isn't Lila Downs on latin tv? Excellent cd.

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Jeffrey Cohen

a beautiful recording

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2001

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This is a wonderfully powerful recording. Downs' voice is amazingly rich as is the instrumentation. I particularly like the mix of melodies and very powerful lyrics. Sometimes the lyrics get a little heavy handed, but her position is a heartfelt one and certainly one that communicates the dignity and strength of the dispossed. Great music, great message.

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Lindsay T.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2015

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Lila Downs. Nuff said.

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Lucia Goode

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Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015

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great album

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Exotic Mexican and indigenous sounds from Lila Downs

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2003

OK, folks, listen up! It's been a few hours since I went to see Lila (pron. Lee-la) Downs in concert at San Juan College. Yes, in Farmington, NM(!), and the two months I've waited since I bought the ticket was worth it! Most of the songs was taken from La Linea (The Border), which thematically describes the immigrant experience of Mexicans into the US, and is dedicated to those who were killed trying to enter. I will admit, with the audio footage during the performance of migrant workers and women enslaved in the maquiladoras, I felt my leftist stirrings bubbling. She clearly came with an agenda, but using the language of music to entertain but also educate, standing on a stage and not wagging her finger on a soapbox. Here are the highlights.
"Sale Sobrando" (Good For Nothing) is a song about the indigenous experience, from the time of Cortes to the massacre in Chiapas, and the racism encountered: "your face is dark but you want to be white/but you really like your taco and tortillas." The title is explained in the last three lines: "Tourists and foreigners come here in vain/what do they worry for-human rights?/if justice here is good for nothing?"
She puts in her husky Billie Holliday-like emotion in Cuco Sanchez's "Corazoncito Tirano" (Little Tyrant Heart), whose instrumentation veers towards country. She asks, "whose mouth is erasing/the kisses I gave you, little tyrant heart?"
The mid-paced ballad "La Nina" (The Girl) is dedicated to the women workers, and tells the psychologically debilitating effects of a maquiladora worker, who only gets Sundays off. The song ends on a positive note of hope, that someday, those days will be over: "one day you will be equal to everyone."
"Hanal Weech" (Eat, Armadillo) was performed at the concert and it's an upbeat cumbia sung in Mayan. The spoken interlude, translated in English goes, "You, beautiful woman even though you are very attractive, the day will come when I leave you because you smell like an armadillo. But if you put some perfume on, I'll come back to you." She explained this and it drew laughter. Celso Duarte's violin plays heavily here, and Lila's voice has a comical, child-like tone. One thing that I wonder: what do armadillos smell like?
A Woody Guthrie medley, "Pastures Of Plenty/This Land Is Your Land" is sung in English, and she did this in concert. She does the second song with a jazz-ish melody, something like late 80's Sade, except with a Latin beat. But there is also a rap that questions the definition of being American. "When did you come...long long before the buffalo walked?" or "Say you're American, but what does it mean?"
"El Bracero Fracasado" is a quick mariachi number about someone who made it past the border with nothing but the clothes on his back, and went through hunger and hardship only to get sent back where he has nothing.
The elegiac "Transito" (Transit) is a sad look at someone far from home who works "in this valley of asphalt and lead", where the factory prospers, but not the workers. "Smoke" is about another massacre of people that hasn't stirred human conscience. "Now everyone's waiting and hoping for justice/but will there be goodness when men kill their own?" she asks.
The sad torch song "La Martiana" based on a Zapotec song, is an entreaty to a young girl. Lila briefly recited excerpts of this before singing it, "Little girl, when I die/don't cry over my grave/because if you cry I will haunt you/but if you sing to me, my life/I will always live. I will never die." My favourite song here.
"La Llorona" (Crying Woman) is a melodic harp and guitar ballad and features the many aspects of Lila's hearty voice, soaring high octave, to low and smoky Holliday-style register, to that shuddering with emotion. Another favourite, and also on the Frida soundtrack.
The bonus track is an exotic cover of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps", or "Quizas Quizas Quizas" in Spanish, most popularly done by Doris Day. Lila sings the verses in her hearty mid-register Spanish, the chorus in a softer register, in English.
Most of the lyrics are printed in both Spanish and English, so that's a big help. In all cases, Lila's able to capture the emotion of the lyrics and music. Her voice soars, rings harshly, and even quivers with emotion. And the Mexican and pre-Columbian instruments enhances this album with an exotic flavour. Gracias, Lila!

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Trevor

Disco excelente

Reviewed in Spain on January 24, 2023

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Este trabajo de Lila Downs nos parece realmente bueno. Lo pedimos porque habíamos perdido el que teníamos. Pero ocurre que ha llegado la caja del cd totalmente destrozada. No lo devolvemos porque el disco está bien. Por otra parte es la tercera vez que nos pasa que al grabar en el ordenador la música ninguna canción tiene etiqueta, nada de nombre de cada pista, ni género, ni nada. Es como un disco pirata, no original. Como digo, no es la primera vez que nos pasa, ya nos ha ocurrido con dos discos de Bob Dylan. Recomendamos por esto comprar la música en mp3 porque el cd es un fiasco. Pagas por una copia mala de un cd el precio de uno original y bien editado. Cuidadín…

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DLEE

LOve her voice ...love her songs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2014

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WOnderful album. NOt as good as the Best of Lila Downs but fab. I have lots of her albums and thing she is the greatest. A magical singer.

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gute laune musik

Reviewed in Germany on March 15, 2010

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bin durch den sountrack von "frida" auf diese großartige künstlerin aufmerksam geworden. das album bietet sehr viel abwechslung und verbreitet gute laune beim zuhören. die stimme und die kompositionen von lila downs sind sehr empfehlenswert.

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