{"id":366,"date":"2007-04-10T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2007-04-10T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:33:47","slug":"rodrigo-y-gabriela-rodrigo-y-gabriela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/rodrigo-y-gabriela-rodrigo-y-gabriela\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo y Gabriela &#8212; Rodrigo y Gabriela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/rodgab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-882\" title=\"Rodrigo y Gabriela -- Rodrigo y Gabriela\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/rodgab.jpg\" alt=\"Rodrigo y Gabriela -- Rodrigo y Gabriela\" width=\"500\" height=\"1300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Rodrigo y Gabriela<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Rodrigo y Gabriela<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> CD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 2007 &#8211; Barnes &amp; Noble in Asheville, NC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was in the local Barnes &amp; Noble the other day when I heard a great acoustic version of Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Orion.&#8221; I headed straight to the music section where a woman in front of me was already asking about it. The clerk grabbed a copy of <em>Rodrigo y Gabriela<\/em> and I snatched up the last one. I&#8217;ve probably played it 20 times in the last few days. I bought it because of &#8220;Orion&#8221; but my favorites are the originals, especially &#8220;Diablo Rojo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was the first I had heard of Rodrigo y Gabriela, but it turns they&#8217;ve been on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodgab.com\/media.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Letterman, Leno, etc.<\/a> earlier this year. This record came out late last year in the US. They&#8217;re from Mexico City, but have been in Europe for a while. They&#8217;re already popular there.<\/p>\n<p>I told a friend yesterday that this album was &#8220;the greatest thing ever!&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if he agrees, but I&#8217;m sure he too thinks it&#8217;s slamming. They have few, if any stylistic rules, and they have some roots in thrash metal. (Gabriela apparently tired of the &#8220;testosteronic&#8221; vibe of the metal scene.) So how would I describe it? It&#8217;s not Flamenco, but it is rhythmic and energetic. It&#8217;s not jazz, they play structured songs. Other than &#8220;greatest thing ever&#8221; and &#8220;slamming&#8221; I&#8217;ll just add that it&#8217;s two people playing acoustic guitars and there is a tasty Latin flavor.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a DVD included with some great live performances where the crowds are going nuts and raising the horns. Also included are interviews, a photo gallery, and a great tutorial where they step through the techniques they use so you can play just like them. Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Rodrigo y Gabriela Title: Rodrigo y Gabriela Year: 2007 Format: CD Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 2007 &#8211; Barnes &amp; Noble in Asheville, NC Keeper: Yes I was in the local Barnes &amp; Noble the other day when I heard a great acoustic version of Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Orion.&#8221; I headed straight to the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,481,453],"tags":[530,543,604,683,46,934,940],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-r","category-record-collection","tag-530","tag-acoustic","tag-cd","tag-folk","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-rodrigo-y-gabriela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}