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Big Red & Barbacoa
Hacienda Us
Big Red & Barbacoa
Genres: Pop, Rock
 
Big Red and Barbacoa is the second album by South Texas' Hacienda, and like its predecessor Loud Is The Night (Alive 2008), it has been produced at the Akron Analog Studio by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. — Recorded on th...  more »

     
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All Artists: Hacienda Us
Title: Big Red & Barbacoa
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Alive Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 4/6/2010
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 095081010628

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Big Red and Barbacoa is the second album by South Texas' Hacienda, and like its predecessor Loud Is The Night (Alive 2008), it has been produced at the Akron Analog Studio by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
Recorded on the tail end of a year of playing at clubs and festivals across North America, Australia, and Europe, opening for Dan Auerbach and Dr. Dog, this new album brings heavier grooves and flavor to the '60s harmonies sound the band is known for. The result is a blend of Tex-Mex roots rock, retro-pop and R&B that can only be described as South Texas Soul. Big Red and Barbacoa captures the attitude of a band ready to throw pretension to the roadside and play rock'n'roll the way it was intended.
 

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Invigorating mix of rock `n' roll, production pop, Tex-Mex a
hyperbolium | Earth, USA | 04/11/2010
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Among the most intriguing aspects of this San Antonio quartet's second album is that you're never quite sure what you're listening to. Is it taking cues from early rock? California production pop? Stax soul? Tex-Mex? Neo-psychedelic grunge? The answer is `yes' to all. At times, like the Beach Boys `65-inspired "Younger Days," the influence is pure honorific. Other antecedents are amalgamated, such as the suggestions of Little Richard and Thee Midniters in the early rock `n' soul of "Mama's Cookin." Others are honored and tweaked at the same time, such as a cover of the Everly Brothers' "You're My Girl," on which the sound is a bit harder than the original, but the lust in the vocal gets at what Phil and Don could only allude to in 1965.



You can hear Sgt. Pepper's-era Beatles in the guitars, the somber mood of Johnny Cash in the vocals, and the teenage energy of mid-60s go-go rock in the rhythms. But as quickly as one thing strikes you familiar another emerges from the mix to create doubts. "Got to Get Back Home" features the roller-rink organ of Dave "Baby" Cortez," a Norteno polka-rhythm and accordion, and a vocal that swings like a drunken folk-revival whaling song. The closing title track is an instrumental session that sounds like ? and the Mysterians jamming a B-side in Memphis. As an added treat, several of the tracks are produced in punchy AM-ready mono and the album is available on vinyl! [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]"