Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The 333 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s: #122

#122: "A Border Tale" (2005) - Robert Earl Keen


¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo (o si mi compadre Mr. Mitchalotchovitch en Philly, PA está leyendo, entonces ¡Feliz Cinco de Marko!), amigos!

¡I have for you un regalo especial! Senor Robert Earl Keen, a Texas troubadour who's been a part of the Austin music scene for durante vienticinco anos, nos da the funniest and most organic mash-up of the past ten years (y primer en esta lista). Senor Keen weaves together "El Juego Se Fue," "Cancion Mextica," "Streets of Laredo," and "Cieleto Lindo," with his own short composition about the owners of a nightclub in (Ciudad) Acuna and his friends and how their infectious laughter in the adjacent alley effects some frat boys and a girl who looks like the Virgin of Ciudad Acuna.

Realmente.

Él sala su historia con una mezcla de mandolin, mariachi horns, a marching snare, and seventy-nine year-old Ray Price (who here sounds like Tex Ritter), all in waltz time, one element on top of another. ¡Está loco!

So order up a round of Vampiras and smoke yer Delicados if ya got 'em, 'cause it's Cinco de Mayo, and Robert Earl Keen está aquí entretener, but he can't stay long, porque se enciende el camino por siempre, y el partido nunca termina.

¡Ole!

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