The Great Cyclops and Other tales Rendered

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Formed in the early 90's Caliche Con Carne is helmed by James Jordon a regular on the Tucson Punk and Underground music scene for over 12 years. The band has performed with many great Country artists like Split Lip Rayfield, Rex Hobart, The Sadies, and other regulars in the Bloodshot Alt Country scene. Caliche combines this Country sensitivity with a south of the border influence to form it's own unique blend of authentic styles.

Album Description
The second release from Tucson's Caliche Con Carne is a perfect blend of "Alt?" Country/Folk music sure to appeal to those who love great songwriting and sweet harmonies. The vocal songwriting team of Raquel Mogollon and James Jordon have produced a true heartfelt collection of honest songs that are backed up by a steller crew of Tucson musicians. This is the real deal, from a rapidly growing Tucson Alt Country scene.

Tracks:

OldMan LittleBoy
Moses among the Kennites
While We Were Playing
A Las tres de Manana
25 de Octubre
Little Bird
Camezot
Searchlights
Get Me Some Water Catherine
The Great Cyclops
Wayfaring Stranger/Starlight...
She's Dead Now
Tumbleweeds
Me and My Caballo
Ciclo
Mountain Song

Album Description

The second release from Tucson's Caliche Con Carne is a perfect blend of "Alt?" Country/Folk music sure to appeal to those who love great songwriting and sweet harmonies. The vocal songwriting team of Raquel Mogollon and James Jordon have produced a true heartfelt collection of honest songs that are backed up by a steller crew of Tucson musicians. This is the real deal, from a rapidly growing Tucson Alt Country scene.

Customer Reviews:

Hank, Don't take my rejection out on the band .......2007-02-10

Hey, Hank, no soul? I think you mean no soul for sale, hijueputa! There must be someone out there for you but disparaging malevolence is so undecorous...I have a few petty criticisms of "Cyclops"- it was my first real recording studio experience, did ya notice? took me a wink to unwind, I have issues with the gringo drumming (still love you bob!) on "25 de Octubre".
But if a little buckshot'll scare you away from the spit, if your horse is too skittish for the unbeaten glory of ramblin' desert canyons, if you need steppin' stones to cross the crik, if a slinkin, swervin' scrape in and about the borderlands where ya might have to squeeze thru a hole in a fence to taste a new breeze borrowin the same old scenery or to run your fingers along the unfamiliar limbs twistin thru the mesh of 2 or 3 cultures aclashin' and aclingin' to each other for life or death ain't your bag, if our mixed-blood bias and country-bumptious heave 'n hitch finds you face down and slack-jawed to a couple of hornytoads acourtin' 'neath the wolfberries, Caliche Con Carne will lend you a jackknife and bandana for that sand in your teeth and that sweat in your eye. Giddy'UP!
We'll wait up for ya.
Cariño, Raquel

..........2003-05-07

Derivative; completely berefet of real talent musically outside of studio quality technicality. Vocals are tolerable. No Soul. ...Go buy the ppl. this band says influenced them, for much less. Get some Bob Wills, some George Jones, and some Conway Twitty fer Chrissake.

Invigorating as a fresh batch of homemade hillbilly hooch!.......2002-08-13

Not since Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, or Patsy Cline has country music been this poetic, prolific, and downright heart-warming. Caliche Con Carne skillfully constructs a rural musical melange that effervescently swings from whiskey-soaked Appalachian mountain music to southwestern Tex-Mex festivity to Deep South backwoods bluesiness to rowdy holy-roller revivalism. The toe-tappin', knee-slappin' ditties contained herein are as pure, authentic, and invigorating as a fresh batch of homemade hillbilly hooch. My ears are undeniably hooked on the angelic, honey-drenched vocals of Raquel Mogollon (her voice is sultry, sweetly titillating, and full of sensuous womanly charm). The down-home vocal drawl of James Patrick Jordan perfectly complements Raquel's syrupy, paradisiacal harmonies, making me all giddy and euphoric way deep down inside. The swampy, slithering slide-guitar fierily sizzles in a big ol' boiling vat of brash acoustic-guitar rhythms. The jaunty mandolin-pickin' swagger of Schwami Lee, robust jug-puffing bass lines of Enrique Baldon, and rootin'-tootin' double-time drum beats of Roberto Duggan exquisitely intertwine to create a pristinely blended collage of rustic, spirit-rousing sonic pleasantness. I'm absolutely 100% enthralled with this musically picturesque disc! Now all I want to do the remainder of this long, hot summer evening is relax on the back porch, slowly imbibe a few beers, blast the splendorous pastoral tunes of Caliche Con Carne, and feverishly dance a jig with Mother Nature. Ain't life grand!

Music:

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Psychedelic Breakfast

Train Songs

Vagn Holmboe: Sonatas & Intermezzi

Yodelling Radio Joe [Import]

Three Lions '98 - Football's Coming Home [CD-single] [Import]

Verdi - Un ballo in maschera / Arroyo · Domingo · Cappuccilli · Cossotto · Grist · NPO · Muti

The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark

The Virtuoso Flute, Vol. 3

Vegas

This One's for Blanton [Import]

Up to Our Hips

United Voices of Africa V.3 [Import]

Tomorrow in the Morning

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 & No. 4; Debussy: Hommage à Rameau; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago