Tish Hinojosa - Retrospective
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Track List: Retrospective
- Destiny's Gate
- Tu Que Puedes, Vuelvete (You Who Can, Return)
- Taos to Tennessee
- I Want to See You Again
- Aquella Noche (That Certain Night)
- Praire Moon
- Reloj (Clock)
- Drifter's Wind
- Everything You Wish
- I'm Not Through Loving You Yet
- Sign of Truth
- Fence Post
- Manos, Huesos y Sangre (Hands, Bones and Blood)
- Always
- Pajarillo Barranqueno (Little Riverside Bird)
- Solo Tus Ojos (Only Your Eyes)
- Magnolia
- When It Rains (Cuando Llueve)
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Album Details: Retrospective
- Release Date:
- 04/11/2006
- Label:
- Varese Fontana
- UPC:
- 030206672725
User Reviews: Retrospective
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Strong multi-label compilation of Mexican-flavored
, May 19, 2006
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Pro Reviews: Retrospective
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews By her own admission, Tish Hinojosa is an artist who resists easy classification she can follow up a traditional Mexican folk song with a easygoing Texas 2step, and then fade into a personal song about love that wouldn't be out of place in the catalog of Nanci Griffith or Emmylou Harris. But there are a few things that tie together Hinojosa's body of work the natural beauty and grace of her voice, the supple sensitivity of her songwriting, and the soulful (but never histrionic) passion that she brings to her music. Hinojosa has been making fine records since 1987, and Retrospective is a compilation that brings together 18 songs (seven in Spanish) from nine of her albums, making this the first comprehensive overview of her career. The set includes three tunes from 1987's Taos to Tennessee (her selfreleased debut album which was later reissued by Watermelon in 1992) on through to two from 2000's Sign of Truth, but Retrospective doesn't sound like an album that spans three decades of recording the material sounds remarkably cohesive, and the intelligence, wisdom, and superb craft of these twelveandahalf performances is consistently winning throughout. This is a lovely exploration of Tish Hinojosa's body of work for longtime fans, and anyone looking for a concise introduction to her music would do well to treat themselves to this disc. (Retrospective does have one rather disconcerting mastering glitch the spoken introduction to "Reloj (Clock)" appears at the end of "Manos, Huesos y Sangre (Hands, Bones and Blood)," as it did on the original release of Aquella Noche. However, on this compilation, "Reloj (Clock)" is track seven and "Manos, Huesos y Sangre (Hands, Bones and Blood)" is track 13) - Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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Tish Hinojosa has drawn numerous critical accolades for her borderless approach to music, blending Mexican folk and country music with a modern singer/songwriter sensibility and touches of pop. Born Leticia Hinojosa in San Antonio in 1955, Hinojosa's...Full Tish Hinojosa Biography
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Pros: Drawn from across Hinojosa's career.
Cons: Hinojosa vacillates between rootsy and commercial work.
The topography of Hinojosa's personal travels is neatly reflected in her artistic associations, making this multi-label collection both a geographic and professional travelogue. Born in San Antonio, Hinojosa developed a musical language that was equally influenced by the surrounding Texas hill country's music as by the sounds of her parent's native Mexico. Her relocations to Taos (where she worked with Michael Martin Murphey), Nashville and back to Taos resulted in the independently released 1988 debut, "Taos to Tennessee," and reissued commercially by Watermelon in 1992. Its songs are graceful and filled with the folk romance of the West; the easiness with which she moved from English to Spanish, covering both in her version of Irving Berlin's "Always," was an early sign of her career's individual melting pot of influences.
A one-album stint with A&M resulted in 1989's "Homeland," unfortunately not sampled here. Her association with Rounder began the following year with the critically lauded "Culture Swing," represented here by one of the album's country-styled tracks, "Drifter's Wind," on which Hinojosa's high voice sounds a bit like Rosie Flores. She'd continue to travel back and forth between labels and styles, dropping the Spanish live recording "Aquella Noche" and English/Spanish Christmas album "Memorabilia Navidena" for Watermelon, the more mainstream "Destiny's Gate and "Dreaming From the Labyrinth" for Warner Brothers, and several special projects for Rounder. Hinojosa's latest for Rounder, 2000's "Sign of Truth," is represented here by a pair of tracks that are the least rootsy of the bunch.
The generous 18 tracks are sequenced for musical continuity, rather than chronology, making this a surprisingly organic compilation of material drawn from over a dozen years of recording. This disc is an excellent place to start one's appreciation of Hinojosa's career. [ ...