The Carnivaleros

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Dashboard Jesus 00:00 Tools
Hang 'em High Tango Redux 00:00 Tools
Lost In the Graveyard 00:00 Tools
Misery and Hope 00:00 Tools
Bazaar 54/Bus Stop 00:00 Tools
Carnival Ride 00:00 Tools
Fools and Angels 00:00 Tools
Gina Lollobrigida 00:00 Tools
El Choclo/Over the Rainbow 00:00 Tools
He Was Here 00:00 Tools
One More Name 00:00 Tools
Skinned Knees & Fishhooks 00:00 Tools
Spook Waltz (Gesture Pie) 00:00 Tools
Liquor, Vice, and Sin 00:00 Tools
Accordion Autopsy 00:00 Tools
Barrio Viejo Waltz 00:00 Tools
The Die Was Cast 00:00 Tools
Delilah 00:00 Tools
Hang 'em High Tango 00:00 Tools
Carnival Mundo 00:00 Tools
Jeans, Hair & Harness 00:00 Tools
Sally and John 00:00 Tools
Viajando en Polka 00:00 Tools
Black Cloud Over Oracle 00:00 Tools
Happy Homestead 00:00 Tools
Chicken Itchin' 00:00 Tools
Step Right Up! 00:00 Tools
Leaving Nerja 00:00 Tools
Alejandro 00:00 Tools
The Wooden Leg 00:00 Tools
Dreams Are Strange 00:00 Tools
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The Carnivaleros' music has always been difficult to define - they combine moody Eastern European motifs, western movie themes with strains of Zydeco rhythms, Tex-Mex polkas, waltzes and swing to create a stew of Desert Bayou Music. They live up to the name with this year's release of "Strictly Tabu". Bandleader Gary Mackender has penned five instrumentals and six seductive tales of life in America for his fourth full length album. Mackender's lyrics deal with the human condition as he sees it; some light, some dark. The tales told on this latest project range from a story of the life of American folk artist Howard Finster, a lament about a deceased neighbor and friend who played the pedal steel, a supper club magician who's fate is sealed due to gambling debts and other shenanigans, and the tale of Arizona Sheriff Joe's rise to fame. The Carnivaleros children's choir is also resurrected on a song about the cult of tin foil hat wearers. Check the band out at carnivaleros.com. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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