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Growing up in Texas near the Mexican border, Michelle Shocked has
presumably had some firsthand experience with the collision and
collusion of Latin and Anglo cultures, and apparently this thinking
has informed her 2005 album Mexican Standoff, in which she offers an
idiosyncratic take on Latin music. "Idiosyncratic" is the key word
here, since some of the cuts on Mexican Standoff -- and particularly
Shocked's vocal performances -- sound willfully eccentric to the point
of parody. Singing in wobbly "Spanglish" with overly dramatic phrasing
that suggests karaoke night during Happy Hour at Chi-Chi's, Shocked
sounds like she's going for some sort of laughs on cuts like "La
Cantina el Gato Negro" and "Lonely Planet," but it's hard to say what
the point or the focus of the gag is supposed to be, especially since
the production and accompaniment sounds sincere enough. By the album's
midway point, Shocked appears to grow weary of her mock-Latin persona
and shifts gears into a greasy blues-shot groove that she plays
straight up, with her band following along and giving as good as they
get. One senses that Shocked has some larger point to make with the
jumbled Latin and blues influences of Mexican Standoff, but it's
difficult to say what it might be, and from a sociological standpoint,
this is Michelle Shocked's most puzzling work since Arkansas Traveler,
without that album's remarkable level of compensatory musical
pleasure. [Mexican Standoff was released on the same day and date as
two other albums from Shocked, Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Got No
Strings, and the three were also made available as a set called
Threesome.]
http://www.michelleshocked.com
Tracks:
01. Lonely Planet (4:53)
02. La Cantina El Gato Negro (4:43)
03. Wanted Man (3:43)
04. Picoesque (5:07)
05. Match Burns Twice (4:34)
06. Mouth Of The Mississippi (4:56)
07. Bitter Pill (3:18)
08. 180 Proof (2:37)
09. Weasel Be Poppin' (3:32)
10. Blackjack Heart (3:09)
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