Vicente Fernández - Entre el Amor y Yo (CD)

All Music Guide

Entre El Amor Y Yo is yet another excellent disk from Vicente Fernandez that risks getting lost amid the myriad of his other equally excellent disks. The arrangements, mostly by Pedro Ramirez, are sumptuous. The production is immaculate. The strings seem to echo from desert mountains. All this is merely background for La Voz, which is in fine form. The most memorable moments are, typically, frontloaded. The doubletracked suspension/resolution harmony of the line "… es conocer la Gloria" in the title track lingers into the arrangement longer than expected, a goosebumpinducing double dose of Vicente's acerbic vibrato floating over a churning waltz. The maneuvers from vulnerable baritone, to powerhouse braggadocio during "No lo Puedo Creer", are Vicente's trademark, but one never gets tired of hearing them. In "Bohemio de Aficion" he sings ," I take off my shirt for a good friend. Today, a millionaire, tomorrow a beggar", and you feel like you are in a Hemingway novel. One could argue that the remaining songs (including "Golondrina sin Nido",the duet with son Alejandro), suffer from a certain sameness, musically at least, but if so, it's only due to the high bar that the standout tracks set.

- J. Chandler, All Music Guide