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Feb 19, 2016Rodriguez has been hinting at the ambition displayed on Lola for some time. What's surprising is how a record of such scope and imagination can be rendered so intimately and elegantly.
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Feb 22, 2016Antique pieces such as Cuco Sánchez’s Que manera de perder are wrung for their stately melodrama, while originals like La última vez and I Dreamed I Was Lola Beltrán take Tex-Mex into classy, modern terrain, steel guitars ringing alongside cantina strumming.
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Feb 19, 2016This is a fresh, confident set.
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Mar 2, 2016While not the starting point for one to enter the musical world of Carrie Rodriguez, the creative left turn that is the wondrous Lola is further proof Rodriguez can move the heart in any language.
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Feb 19, 2016"Si No Te Vas" sounds exactly as if Rodriguez was in a callejón serenading her lover even with the hint of gringo in her Rs. Picking up Spanish as an adult can cause that, yet it lends the music an authentic border feel, the bridge between worlds. Therein lies the cohesiveness between old and new that makes Lola a love affair worth taking home and introducing to la familia.
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Jun 13, 2016All in all, it’s Rodriguez’s way with both a samba and a sway that helps elevate this effort while making it one of her best yet.
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Q MagazineFeb 19, 2016The whole, though, is surprisingly cohesive and always uplifting, linked by knowingly sultry vocals and veteran innovator Bill Frisell's typically oddball guitar work. [Apr 2016, p.114]