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Though he often plays second fiddle to his better-known brother Flaco Jimenez of the Texas Tornados, Santiago is really the other side of the same coin: he stays close to the traditional sounds of their father and plays mainly in his own community, while Flaco's the experimental accordionist who takes the music to the outside world. The title song here--a corrido is a topical ballad--tells the story of a goat-herder shot and killed on the Mexican border in 1997 by a U.S. Marine who mistook him for a drug dealer. It's somber and earthy and tells a story very different from the one that appeared in the newspapers. The rest of the CD is prime Santiago: tender boleros ("El Mal Querido"), aggressive polkas ("Polka Potpourri"), and rousing rancheras ("Amor a lo Lijero"). --John Morthland