Search - Juan Gabriel :: 10 De Los Grandes

Youth and simplicity

jackiesdog | Sonora, Mexico | 07/10/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you like Juan Gabriel's youthful voice and the simple backup of a small mariachi group, you'll like this album. There's not much variety in this early `70s CD, however. It was a time when Juan Gabriel was a better songwriter than singer and his arrangers weren't doing him any favors. One song seems to run into the next without a significant change in rendition or style. The CD is a good example of Gabriel's start, and the sounds are happy ones. However, if your taste runs more toward the professionalism of his 1990s work in El Palacio de Bellas Artes, you'll probably find that this one comes up a little short."