Cesar Rosas - Soul Disguise
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Artist: Cesar RosasEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-02-02
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Little Heaven
- You've Got To Lose
- Tough To Handle
- Angelito
- Struck
- Shack And Shambles
- Better Way
- Soul Disguise
- Treat Me Right
- Adios Mi Vida
- Racing The Moon
- E. Los Ballad #13
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Free Music Review: Excellent CD for Los Lobos Fans
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the biggest "problems" with Los Lobos albums is that there just isn't enough Cesar Rosas songs. No surprise, since he competes with David Hildago and Louis Perez's incredible song writing skills and David's angelic vocals. (Although Louis's famed "Saint Behind the Glass" from the Kiko album is one of Los Lobo's classic and masterful tracks.) On this CD, Cesar stays firmly within the overall feeling of an excellent Los Lobos album while providing fans with a great collection of Cesar vocals and guitar playing. No Los Lobos collection would be complete without this CD, while I cannot say the same for those CDs produced by the Latin Playboys, with all due candor. I don't personally care for the experimentation with sound alterations that watered down the fine songs on Los Lobo's Colossal Head CD (the live versions available here and there are much better)....so I'd put this CD as "Not as needed as the Kiko CD" but "more needed than the Colossal Head CD" in my humble opinion. The album cover art, for whatever that is worth, was not particularly stunning to me (no offense, he's a good looking guy, reminds me of my brother in law) but the back cover art is great and a variation of that would have made a fantastic cover. Of course, that's got nothing to do with the music....go for the music, Los Lobos fans, go for the music. This one belongs as a significant part of your Los Lobos collection. Interestingly enough, the fact that the other Los Lobos guys don't appear on the CD doesn't hurt it a bit. That's odd, in that each and every member of Los Lobos are very masterful musicians, but Cesar brought in very sympatico players and they really supported him quite well and we are left with a "Los Lobos" album that is very fresh and superior overall to some of the actual Los Lobos CDs (themselves being very good.) Soul Disguise
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On this fine solo-album debut, it comes as no surprise to find veteran Los Lobos singer-songwriter-guitarist Cesar Rosas revisiting the R&B, soul, roots-rock, and norteño ingredients that made his East L.A. band's musical stew so compelling. What's revealing is Rosas's willingness to deconstruct his Grammy-winning band's sound back to its constituent components, making Soul Disguise play like a loving journey across borders both musical and national. Rosas largely eschews the slick production values of '90s-vintage Los Lobos for considerably more grit and funk. Here he tackles with playful abandon everything from traditional Tex-Mex (his own "Angelito" and a cover of "Adios Mi Vida," both with legend Flaco Jiminez adding his distinctive accordion flourishes) to a swampy version of Ike Turner's "You've Got to Lose." Rosas stubs his toe only once, on the '70s-ish acoustic utopian ballad "Better Way." Similar journeys have been made by everyone from Steve Miller and Ry Cooder to precliché ZZ Top; it's Rosas's excursions into Stax and New Orleans R&B territory (like the delicious "Struck" and the funky "Shack and Shambles"), along with his sharp border-music and blues-roots sense, that makes Soul Disguise so distinct and satisfying. --Jerry McCulleyBlues Music CDs
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