Canciones de Mi Padre

Infobox Album |
Name = Canciones de Mi Padre
Type = Album
Artist = Linda Ronstadt


Released = 1987
Recorded = 1987
Genre = Adult Contemporary, Pop, Folk
Length = 42:57
Label = Elektra/WEA
Producer = Peter Asher
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fyxqt5ldfe link]
*Rolling Stone Rating|3.0|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/301225/review/5942489?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link] |
Last album = "Trio"
(1987)
This album = "Canciones de Mi Padre
(1987)
Next album = "Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind"
(1989)

"Canciones de Mi Padre" (Spanish for "Songs of My Father," or "My Father's Songs") was Linda Ronstadt's first album of Mexican traditional mariachi music. The album was recorded in 1987 and quickly became a hit. At the time, it became the best selling non-english language album in American record history. The album has been RIAA certified double-platinum (over 2 million copies sold) and won Ronstadt a Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance.

These canciones were a big part of Ronstadt's family tradition and musical roots. The title "Canciones de mi Padre" refers to a booklet that the University of Arizona published in 1946 by Ronstadt's aunt, Luisa Espinel who had been an international singer in the 1920s. cite web | title=Tucson'sRonstadtFamily | work=TheArizona Library | url=http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadtfamily/music/cancintr.html | accessmonthday=May 30 | accessyear=2007] The songs come from Sonora and Ronstadt included her favorites on the album. Also, Ronstadt has credited Mexican singer Lola Beltran as an influence in her own singing style, and she recalls how a frequent guest to the Ronstadt home, Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero, father of Chicano music, would often serenade her as child with these songs. cite web | title=AARP Segunda Juventud Online | work=Linda Ronstadt, The music legend opens up to AARP Segunda Juventud Online,By Anita Mabante Leach, August 2007| url=http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/entertainment/2007-AS/07AS_ronstadt.html | accessmonthday=September 16 | accessyear=2007]

In the accompanying printed material, each song's Spanish lyrics were paired with an English translation and a discussion of the song's background or its significance for Ronstadt(omitted on the CD). Rubén Fuentes served as musical director/bandleader. Follow-up albums include "Mas Canciones", "Frenesi", and "Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas", which collects songs from the previous three Spanish-language albums.

Track listing

#"Por Un Amor"
#"Los Laureles"
#"Hay Unos Ojos"
#"La Cigarra"
#"Tu Solo Tu"
#"Y Andale"
#"Rogaciano El Huapanguero"
#"La Charreada"
#"Dos Arbolitos"
#"Corrido De Cananea"
#"La Barca De Guaymas"
#"La Calandria"
#"El Sol Que Tu Eres"

Personnel

*Linda Ronstadt - vocals
*Danny Valdez - vocals, guitar
*Gilberto Puente, Samuel Gutierrez, Humberto Hernandez - guitar
*Felipe Perez, Antonio Ramos, Salvador Torres - violin
*Steve Fowler - flute
*Ron Kalina - harmonica
*Juan Gudiono, Luis Salinas - trumpet
*Jim Self - tuba
*Larry Bunker - percussion

References