Sones de Mexico Are Not Joking Around

“Johann Sebastian Bach, Woody Guthrie and Led Zeppelin walk into a Mexican restaurant in Chicago. If you know a joke that starts like that, save it for later. This is about a new CD, and theres no punch line. Except that its dang good.

The fact is you just don’t expect to find the sprightly second movement from Bachs third Brandenburg Concerto, Guthrie’s expansive This Land is Your Land and the polyrhythmic Zep scorcher Four Sticks all on one album. You really don’t expect to find them played by a band that specializes in Mexican traditional music, performed on folk instruments, let alone by a band based in the Windy City. And should something of that sort exist, you would expect it to be meant as a gag. But Esta Tierra Es Tuya This Land Is Your Land, the new, third album by Sones de México, neatly manages all that, while sidestepping that last bit.”

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