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Happy Homestead "Homestead is what Carnivaleros music really is, 110% this time, and what that is, is infectious as hell, swingin' like a gin-swozzled junebug, and as sage as a grinning ranch-hand looking toward darkening skies." Lyrics and musician's credits can be found here. |
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Lost In the Graveyard "The Carnivaleros occupy that ghostly twilight niche manned by lurking gatherings of really good musicians who keep a tight lock on neighborhood familiarity and loose professionality by capturing a Saturday Night vibe and keeping it firmly stoked." "Lost in the Graveyard is as good as it is crazy." |
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Step Right Up! "The Carnivaleros sound like their name suggests - an amalgam of Tex-Mex, circus music, Zydeco, traditional Western, spy themes, Eastern European motifs, and everything else under the sun." " 'Step Right Up!,' is a firecracker of extraordinary musicianship and genre-bending songs. In terms of musicianship, this group and CD can stand with any we've heard this year (local or national)." |
concoctions from disparate materials such as klezmer, zydeco, polka, country and blues."
- Peter Hund, Good New Music, September, 2006
