October 21, 2005
| Re-write... You know all you patient people that I went to Mexico for a couple of weeks this past summer. I wrote about it and put a couple of sound clips up back on August 14. However due to operator error I managed to completely erase the page.. that's a bit sad however let's get going with the Mexico story...again. In 1999 I stopped in on the town of Saucillo Mexico in southern Chihuahua just looking for a river that I had been told about. You see there was a woman in the neighboring city of Delicias I had met her on some previous adventure and it took a long time to get back there again and there really wasn't much of a tale to tell of that hot romance as it mainly existed in the realm of the mind.. my mind ...Male obsession/illusion fantasy and she definitely was worthy but alas she had decided to enter a convent. Yes a tragedy to many, well.. me anyways.. but that's OK. I still kept her in my mind and yes, heart too... but hey this story is about music. In 1999 while waiting for permission to gain a sitting with my royal highness. I needed to get out of the city and someone said take the bus to Saucillo there is a River there. I thought maybe that was a good idea I wanted to sit by a pleasant river and emmm ...chill. On the way to the river I met some musicians. It was hot. It was midday. There were three musicians under the shade of a tree. I went right over we talked some. They weren't about to play some music. I realized that it's part courtesy, it's part respect... it's how they make a living gringo. I took out my wallet and gave them something green and they proceeded to give me a short personal concert that had me feeling elevated into some realm of awe and delight these guys were so heavenly.. good.
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Now it was 2005 I was back...I had not
exactly given up on the queen of Mexico she hadn't written back and maybe
if you are in a convent and some guy is still hot for you (marriage is a
high road ..a real fine road) maybe you best not encourage him or even
talk to him so I didn't know what was going on down there. Maybe she
finally dropped out and ... no. Come to find out she is Mother Mary now,
and living in Espana. Blessings on the world. That woman is something
else. Wow.
But it was all about music I brought my DAT recorder down
there I wanted to personally hideaway and make music for two weeks but
also wanted to find those musicians again.
I found Ventura, Los Andarieggos de Saucillo are no more well
maybe that's to strong a statement maybe there will always be Andarieggos
de Saucillo. Andarieggo is apparently old spanish word for a person who
does a lot of walking it is also the title of a traditional Mexican tune
and it exactly describes the lifestyle of Ventura and his musician amigos
as just about every night they head out to make the rounds of the tavernas
in Saucillo stopping in here and there where there is a little action
getting a few pesos for a tune and scratching a living doing what they
love.
| This is Ventura summer 2005 in front of the sindicato testing out my guitar. |  |
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| Here in front of
the Sindicato de Cancioneros y Filarmonicos 'Fernando Rosas' inside
this little concrete blockhouse where I think my best recordings
took place. Left to right Jesus 'Chito', Santos, Ventura, Elias, Silvestre, & Tony Holy Mother of Pearl forgive me Ventura if its taken so damn long to begin to share your music with the world it's just that . DammmmmmmNNN! Son o0f a Gun I am so BaD! Lord a mighty!@ This heavenly music and I don't know how to share it. Two songs. I want to be back down there for at least a week maybe 10 days in December. Anybody who is at all truly moved impressed or otherwise please send me a note saying something to the effect of go man go! Please. Two tunes first this piece of Iconic soulful archetypal Spiritual Holiness! Called Cielito Lindo. You know you have heard it before. Cielito Lindo ... 'Canta no llores'.... (Sing, don't cry) maybe I will give you the version in the bar with people talking half over it and Luis, the bum managing an audible spit half way through.. but damn I still love this version. Then my very last day waiting for the bus Ventura showing up late one more recording session inside the sindicato with its small concrete blockhouse design three tunes and run to catch the bus back home finally holy cow back in the USA my home sweet home. ( work in progress ) So here
are three tunes... 1) Cielito
Lindo recorded live in a 'drive-in' bar's patio in Saucillo
Mexico mid-summer 2005. |
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