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Calexico, Hot Rail

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1557575

Disk length: 53m 45s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. El Picador 4:00
2. Ballad Of Cable Hogue 5:13
3. Ritual Road Map 1:30
4. Fade 4:52
5. Untitled III 2:39
6. Sonic Wind 4:04
7. Muleta 3:34
8. Mid-Town 3:35
9. Service And Repair 4:15
10. Untitled II 4:09
11. Drenched 7:45
12. 16 Track Scratch 1:17
13. Tres Avisos 3:30
14. Hot Rail 3:13

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Review

John Convertino and Joey Burns spend a good portion of their time playing with their friend Howe Gelb in the once prolific Giant Sand. But as contractual obligations--or, perhaps, contractual constraints--forced the band to lay off from time to time, it gave the backing boys plenty of time to pursue their own interests as Calexico. Much like Giant Sand, Calexico play a loose game, as likely to pursue Tom Waitsesque instrumentals (lots of shiny metallic percussion everywhere) as an abstract, countrified songwriting muse. The addition of horns and violin for the opening instrumental, "El Picador," and the distorted Spanish guitar of "Muleta" suggest that they've spent time well below Calexico's border. Twangy guitar riffs abound, and when pressed into tunes they highlight the duo's capacity for understated songwriting ("Ballad of Cable Hogue," "Service and Repair") that not so surprisingly sounds much like Giant Sand themselves. --Rob O'Connor

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Hot Rail

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 53m 47s (+0m 2s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 53m 50s (+0m 5s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 53m 23s (-1m 38s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 53m 19s (-1m 34s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 15 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 57m 17s (+3m 32s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 15 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 57m 43s (+3m 58s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 17 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 1h 4m 33s (+10m 48s)

Hot Rail

Tracks: 16 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 5m (+11m 15s)

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