Dirty Linen (p.47) - "The arrangements are breathtaking beautiful, graced by briskly strummed guitars, lush strings, and swooning, soaring trumpets..."
Personnel: Bernardino De Santiago, Joan Sebastian, Erick Mora (guitar); J. Manuel Jimenez (vihuela); Javier Carillo, Javier Alfaro, Hugo Santiago, J. Manuel Viurquis, Edmundo Cortes, Hugo Colula, David Rivera (violin); Francisco Cedillo, Alesia Martinez Bourquet, Pablo Martinez Bourquet, Erika Ramirez Sanchez (viola); Cesar Martinez Bourquet, Ildelfonso Cedillo, Ivan Nemesh Granchak, Monica del Aguila (cello); Noe Guadarrama (accordion); Moises Garcia, Isidro Martinez, Javier Serrano 'El Loco' (trumpet); Pedro Garcia, Esteban Rivera (trombone).
The Mexican ranchera singer Vicente Fernandez was already a cultural icon by the late 1960s. By the early 2000s, a time that saw ranchera reaching untold levels of popularity in both Mexico and the United States, Fernandez had become a towering legend. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the man's moving, romantic vocals showed no signs of losing their power, as 2007's PARA SIEMPRE VICENTE FERNANDEZ proved. A collaboration with acclaimed Norteno songwriter Joan Sebastian, PARA SIEMPRE is a winning collection, showcasing both Fernandez's inimitable style and Sebastian's fine songs.