Promo For Little Willie G/Tremoloco Christmas Dance Concert on December 5th 2009 Covina, Ca
December 5, 2009 9:00 PM
NICK'S TASTE OF TEXAS
545 N. Citrus, Covina, CA 91723 (626) 331-2824
(Between San Bernardino Road and Front Street) Tickets available at www.tremolocos.com
Attn: Car Clubs, Community Organizations, Birthday Parties, Big Familias etc...
Group Discounts Available!!!!! (contact us for info)
Tony Zamora - vocals, basses, guitarron, acoustic guitar
Cougar Estrada/Jason Lozano - drums, percussion
Bob Robles - guitars, requinto romantico, vocals
Rick Shea - pedal steel, lap steel, guitar, vocals
Mike Tovar - jarana, cuatro, electric/acoustic guitars
Juan Chacon - acoustic guitar, requinto romantico, vihuela, vocals
2008 "Dulcinea" CD GUESTS INCLUDE: -----------------------------------------------
Stephen Bruton-guitar (IN LOVING MEMORY-R.I.P.)
David Hidalgo-guitar, bass, accordion, viola, Hidalguerra, co-write
Greg Leisz-pedal steel, Weissenborn, lap steel
Johnny Lee Schell-guitar, tenor guitar, cigarbox guitar, vocals, production (arrangements, engineering)
Dave Raven-drums, vocals, percussion, hambone, production (arrangement, mixing)
Billy Watts-acoustic/electric guitars
Cindy Cashdollar-lap steel, dobro, Asher steel
Redd Volkaert-guitars
Joel Guzman-accordion, vocals
Max Baca-Bajo Sexto, drums
Ian McLagan-piano
James Cruce-drums
Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez-drums, vocals
Eddie Baytos - accordion, piano
Jennifer Condos-bass
Rene Camacho-upright bass
Cody Bryant-guitars, fiddle, banjo
Brantley Kearns-fiddle
Ruben Estrada-vibes, marimba
"Little Willie G."-vocals, co-write
Paul Marshall-vocals, co-write
Cisco DeLuna-vocals, guitars, lyrics
Vincent Hidalgo-Jarana
Stefanie Fife-cello
Armando Tavares-drums
Vicki Hill-vocals
Ann Cusack-vocal
Very Special Guests: from the "Lowrider Band" Harold Brown-lead vocal, percussion, co-write Lee Oskar-harmonica / horn arrangements, co-write (Founding members / songwriters with legendary L.A. band WAR) www.lowriderband.com w/Scotty Harris – saxophone Brandon Busch-backing vocal, engineer
Mariachi Painting by Philip J Felix used by permission copyright 2008
Los Angeles and California mean many things to so many people.
Chuck Berry’s Promised Land, Bukowski’s L.A. from a forgotten era,
East L.A., Hollywood, South Central, Deserts, Beaches, Oil Fields and Orchards.
What does music sound like from a place like this?
To it’s warm embrace and fertile ground were drawn Dust Bowl refugees, Migrant Farmers, Cowboys, and Blue Bloods alike, bringing with them the rhythms and soul of home. What grew was Bakersfield Country, West Coast Jazz, Western Swing, Mexican Border Radio, Country/Rock etc…
Dulcinea was the idealized woman of Don Quixote’s imagination.
Referring to someone as your “Dulcinea” implies hopeless devotion.
Love and music are a bit like that, an idealized never-ending journey.
It’s never quite as you imagine (usually harder).
But so much more than you could have guessed.
These songs describe this sort of musical and romantic crossing.
From a Georgia rain to a serendipitous passing on a New Orleans streetcar,
From Las Cruces, New Mexico to the Louisiana Gulf Coast, from L.A. to Mexicali. Listen closely and you’ll hear it. Wade through the textures, styles, and genres and you’ll feel it.
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TREMOLOCO
Dulcinea
Casa Julia Records
The eclectic cross-pollination whipped up by Tony Zamora’s expanding and contracting all-star group Tremoloco has been called Mexican-Americana. Which is an apt a tag as any for the Angelinos’ mix of conjunto, country, Cajun, blues, Latin, jazz, and roadhouse rock and roll.
Dulcinea was recorded primarily in Los Angeles and Austin, taking advantage of stellar roots musicians from both locales – like drummer/pianist/co-producer Cougar Estrada and his Los Lobos bandmate David Hidalgo, steel guitarist Greg Leisz and guitarists Bob Robles and Johnny Lee Schell (who also engineered) from the former and twang guru Redd Volkaert, lap steeler Cindy Cashdollar, accordionist Joel Guzman, Faces pianist Ian Mclagan and Stephen Bruton from the latter.
Other guest include Cougar’s dad, vibes great Ruben Estrada, Hidalgo’s son Vincent (on jarana), War harpist Lee Oskar, Thee Midnighters vocalist Willie G. fiddler Brantley Kearns and Max Baca on drums and bajo sexto.
For his part, Zamora recalls the great Doug Sahm – handling most lead vocals, playing guitar, bass, guitarron and percussion and writing all 14 tunes. In just the first three songs, Robles trades wiggly electric bends with Kearn’s fiddle on the cumbia “Mi Novela”; Cashdollar’s dobro adds just the right amount of moan to the country weeper “Drinking for Two”; and Volkaert, Leisz, and Guzman weave in and out of the polka “Abuela’s Lament”.
If you appreciate Los Lobos’ open-minded approach to roots music, you should dig this. Then again, if your cup of tea is George Jones (or, for that matter, Tito Puente), there’s probably something for you here, too.
DF
Hit List
Vintage Guitar Magazine
October 2008 Issue
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TREMOLOCO
Dulcinea
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Tremoloco, a new band from the Los Angeles area, deliver the traditional sounds of Tex-Mex music with their debut album, Dulcinea.
The record is a fascinating journey, which takes the listener from LA to Las Cruces, with a stop in New Orleans before heading back to New México for a run to Mexicali. The album is musically-rich, and full of geographic references, in which urban rock, Latin-influenced music and Tex-Mex fusion go hand in hand.
The band bears no resemblance to any other, not even to Los Lobos or the Sones De México--- they are a multi-ethnic band led by Tony Zamora. With him are Bob Robles, Cougar Estrada (of Los Lobos),
Billy Watts, Mike Tovar and David Raven. Also impressive is the
list of guests appearing on the album: David Hidalgo, Greg Leisz, Johnny Lee Schell, Red Volkaert, Cindy Cashdollar, Joel Guzman,
Max Baca, Cody Bryant, Ian MacLagan, Stephen Bruton, Willie G, and many others.
The record was conceived between Los Angeles and Texas, where the air one breathes is Mexican, which you will find among the disc’s border ballads and rock passages. The banner song is certainly La Casa Del Mexicano, of pure Tex-Mex flavor, partly sung in English and partly sung in Spanish, with a warm melody and the accordion of Joel Guzman making it all the more beautiful. This is a defining song in which it is made clear that this band is here to stay- perhaps even on the same level as Los Lobos, but with a sound that is even more traditional. They don’t share the same rock element or range of sounds as “The Wolves from East LA”- instead, these beautiful songs bring back a genre of music that has perhaps been slightly forgotten in recent years.
The fusion of Mexican and American music is always rare and difficult to find, but in Tremoloco, exists the beautiful reality, and if they are fortunate enough, then we may be able to count on them to deliver it.
Dulcinea begins with Mi Novela, a diverse and original song. The accordion immediately stands out in this recording that mixes México and Carlos Vives, with South American fusion and Cuban influences. In Drinking for Two, the ever-present accordion veers slightly into rock. Abuela’s Lament is a Mexican dance, a passage straight from a ‘fiesta campesina’, rhythmic and full of ‘gritos’ (cries).
The guitar is swirling in motion as the steel guitar and accordion slide down the back of Zamora’s voice. A cross between Tex-Mex and country, this song is pure pleasure! The most American sounding song is In A Georgia Rain, which opens up with the violin. It has all the makings of a classic Americana-style song, and is sung with passion and played cleanly and directly.
The record greatly surpasses 50 minutes, exceeding the standard. Other noteworthy songs are the campesino-style dance song Doble del Cuchillo, which is both enthralling and creative, the slower Just a Little While, and the steaming Mexicali, in which country and rock and roll come into their own sublimation. Goodbye Miss Lynn is a nostalgic compilation, which is very country-oriented, and reminiscent of country rock from the 1960’s, while Koombia Loco is a Latin-style dance song. Cajun Waltz takes you beyond borders to a Mexican-style ‘hacienda’ where Texans and Latinos come together to play music.
The record finishes up with the western-themed Cowboy Lullaby, while Hocicona blends the styles of Tom Waits and Los Lobos. Dulce’s Dream and Tremoloco, two instrumental pieces, close the record with dignity. A beautiful discovery, that is completely original.
BY PAOLO CARU BUSCADERO Magazine
May 2008 issue
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"Even though they are from East Los Angeles and have close ties to Los Lobos, there are few repertoires that scream “Gulf Coast” like Tremoloco’s. No matter whether the language is Spanish or English; the style honky-tonk, Tex-Mex or rock and roll; the dance a two-step, zydeco stomp or slow drag, Tremoloco plays it with a mastery that makes most of our local honky-tonk heroes sound like weekend warriors at best.
The accordions whir, the guitars smoke and the blues is the blues no matter the language. To properly listen to ‘Loco’s magnificent debut, Dulcinea, one needs the clinking of ice in glasses, the low barroom hubbub of voices and laughter and the occasional Freddy Fender “ay-yay-yay.”
The material ranges from the hilarious “Mi Novela” (my soap opera), in which a macho husband can’t get enough of the daily Latin television dramas, to “Tremoloco,” a super-cool instrumental track that should be on a tape loop in every bedroom in America where clothes are on the floor and the sheets are tangled.
With Los Lobos drummer Cougar Estrada, Dave Alvin alum Rick Shea on guitars and Tony Zamora’s earthy lyrics and vocals, this band should rapidly become favorites here in H-Town, where belt buckle polishing is part of the genetic code.
Throw Tremoloco on the jukebox anywhere between Los Skarnales and Clifton Chenier, between Freddy Fender and Los Lobos, between Ruben Ramos and Bill Black’s Combo, and you’re on Tremoloco’s musical terra firma, a robust Tex-Mexican Americana.
Michael William Smith
Houston Press, June 2008
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"Dulcinea (Casa Julia) is a rich, dizzingly cross-cultural experience. We speed through a Tex-Mex polka with "Abuela's Lament" replete with chickens, pistols and the devil, we stop at a honky-tonk where "Drinking For Two" mingles C&W with Mexican accordion, it seriously inclines us to gulp tequila, "La Casa Del Mexicano" is simply beautiful. It's about a Chicano Ballroom in East L.A. This work of aural art affirms how, regardless of what the powers that be would have us believe, we are one on the dance floors of our collective past.
Tim Schuller
Buddy Magazine, June 2008
Dallas,Texas
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East L.A. meets S.A.
"Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zamora is touring with a new CD, “Dulcinea,” it's a fusion of alt-country, folk, rock and traditional Mexican influences. Zamora's music is being described as “Mexican Americana.”
Produced by Zamora and Los Lobos percussionist Cougar Estrada, "Dulcinea" features hip tunes, including “Mi Novela,” “Abuela's Lament,” “In a Georgia Rain,” “Koombia Loco,” “Cajun Waltz” and “Cowboy Lullaby.” Zamora is not afraid to cross borders. The Cd is filled with special guests.
The live Tremoloco crew also is a high-powered bunch: Zamora, Estrada and guitarists Rick Shea, Bob Robles, Mike Tovar and Juan Chacon. For the Casbeers show, Tremoloco also will include storied singer Ruben Ramos and bajo sexto champ Max Baca. There'll be some Tex in the Mexican Americana."
Here's a list of stations currently playing "Dulcinea". If any of these are in your area please call in and request your favorite Tremoloco song! Thanks for all of the support.
NORTHEAST:
WHUS FM - STORRS, CT
WDVR FM - SERGEANTSVILLE, NJ
WFDU FM - TEANECK, NJ
WERU FM - E ORLAND, ME
WSYC FM - SHIPPENSBURG, PA
WXLV FM - SCHNECKSVILLE, PA
Mid-Atlantic
WCHG FM - HOT SPRINGS, VA
WVLS FM - MONTEREY, VA
WRRW FM - VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
WYOU FM - NORFOLK, VA
WVMR FM - DUNMORE, WV
SOUTHEAST:
Rock Garden - OCALA, FL INTERNET
SOUTH:
WMSR Fm - AUBURN, AL
KASU FM - STATE UNIVERSITY, AR
WETS FM - JOHNSON CITY, TN
UPPER MIDWEST:
WYCE FM - GRAND RAPIDS, MI
KAXE FM - GRAND RAPIDS, MN
WOJB FM - HAYWARD, WI
MIDWEST:
WRUW FM - CLEVELAND, OH
WEFT FM - CHAMPAIGN, IL
WFHB FM - BlOOMINGTON, IN
WHAY FM - WHITLEY CITY, KY
WMKY FM - MOREHEAD, KY
WMMT FM - WHITESBURG, KY
KOPN FM - COLUMBIA, MO
KYMO FM - EAST PRARIE, MO
WOUB FM - ATHENS, OH
WRUW FM - CLEVELAND, OH
KANZ FM - GARDEN CITY, KS
SOUTHWEST:
KSGR FM - Austin, Texas
KEOS FM - COLLEGE STATION, TX
KPFT FM - HOUSTON, TX
KTRU FM - HOUSTON, TX
KSYM FM - SAN ANTONIO, TX
KCIE FM - DULCE, NM
KGLP FM - GALLUP, NM
KSIL FM - SANTE FE, NM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN:
KDNK FM - CARBONDALE, CO
KAFM FM - GRAND JUNCTION, CO
KSJD FM - CORTEZ, CO
KSUT FM - IGNACIO, CO
KUTE FM - DURANGO, CO
KVNF FM - PAONIA, CO
FAR WEST:
KPIG FM - WATSONVILLE, CA
KUSP FM - SANTA CRUZ, CA
KRSH FM - SANTA ROSA, CA
KCSB FM - SANTA BARBARA, CA
Semi-Twang - SACRAMENTO, CA Internet
KCSS FM - TURLOCK, CA
KDVS FM - DAVIS, CA
KVMR FM - NEVADA CITY, CA
NORTHWEST:
KBSU FM - BOISE, ID
KBOO FM - PORTLAND, OR
KMUN FM - ASTORIA, OR
KRVM FM - EUGENE, OR
KSMF FM - ASHLAND, OREGON
KRNN FM - JUNEAU, AK
KBCS FM - BELLLEVUE, WA
KBBI FM - HOMER, AK
KMXT FM - KODIAK, AK
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Hey Tremoloco, I've got a radio show for a few weeks - so, please tune into the Paul Hughes Show (filling in for Gordon Hotchkiss) on Celtic Music Radio this Wednesday between 7pm – 9pm UK time. As well a Scottish, Irish and American folk/roots music I’ll be chatting with Paddy Callaghan about being selected for the finals of the BBC Young Trad Musician of the Year and hear him playing the harp and box. Celtic Music Radio is available in and around Glasgow on 1530 AM (MW) and you can listen anywhere else in the world on the internet at www.celticmusicradio.net and click on “Listen Live” in the top right of the screen. Thanks for reading down this far.
Tony Thats was Bad ass Last night!!! Thanks and my friend Mando said he is going to see tim tonight. Here is a clip from last night. Leonard Da Blux King
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