La Iguana -- Sones Jarochos from Veracruz, Mexico CD

Rock `n' roll and Hollywood have several debts to Mexican country music but perhaps at the top of their list you'd find "La Bamba" a traditional son jarocho which was covered by Trini Lopez, Ritchie Valens and more recently by Los Lobos.
This new CD anthology, the first in a series of releases to feature great masters of the eight different styles of Mexican son, reveals that there is still plenty of life in "La Bamba" and that son jarocho with its furious harps, guitars and high voltage vocals, is the most rhythmic and possibly the most addictive style of Mexican country music. La Iguana brings together the best son jarocho bands -- from the most commercial to the most rootsy -- recorded over 20 years by Corason founder Eduardo Llerenas.
This is an album which should be snapped up by anyone interested in Mexican or Latin music. Son jarocho, like the brow-lifting, lash-fluttering tongue-erecting iguana, is a great country creation, here to stay.
Notes in Spanish.

"The incessant torrent of commercially oriented records currently being released are thankfully being complemented by product that digs to the corazon of the origins of contemporary music . . . worthy of investigation is [this] multi-artist compilation . . . which spotlights son jarocho, a loping, quick-paced rhythm powered by guitar, harp, and African-rooted vocal stylings."
--John Lannert, Billboard

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Desde el puerto de Veracruz hasta los confines del pueblo caero de Cosamaloapan, los sones jarochos siguen animando a la poblacin con sus voces pregoneras, sus ritmos sincopados y sus brillantes desplantes en el arpa y el requinto.

Este CD es una seleccin de grupos que han participado en grabaciones realizadas durante más de 20 aos de viajes por toda la regin jarocha. Es también el primer ttulo de una coleccin que reúne a los maestros de la tradicin musical de cada regin del son mexicano.

Lista de Canciones:
1. La guacamaya - Tro de Mandinga
2. El cascabel - Tro de Mandinga
3. El ahualulco - Tro de Mandinga
4. La manta - Los Tiburones del Golfo
5. La sarna - Los Tiburones del Golfo
6. La bamba - Conjunto de Santiago Tuxtla
7. La Mara Justa - Daniel Cabrera
8. La culebra - Daniel Cabrera
9. Los juiles - Daniel Cabrera
10. La candela - Daniel Cabrera
11. El cupido - Ecos del Papaloapan
12. El pájaro cú - Ecos del Papaloapan
13. La tuza - Ecos del Papaloapan
14. El cascabel - Conjunto Tlacotalpan
15. El siquisir - Conjunto Cosamaloapan
16. La morena - Conjunto Cosamaloapan
17. El canelo - Conjunto Cosamaloapan
18. La tarasca - Conjunto Cosamaloapan
19. El balajú - Conjunto Los Jarochos
20. El jarabe loco - Conjunto Los Jarochos
21. El pájaro carpintero - Conjunto Los Jarochos
22. La indita - Conjunto Los Jarochos
23. La iguana - Conjunto Los Jarochos