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Posts: 1813
Joined: Nov. 8 2010
From: London (living in the Bay Area)
Provenance of Paco de Lucía tracks
I have a rather odd anthology, purportedly of Lucía tunes (and called, inevitably, Entre dos aguas), that I bought many years ago because a lot of the tracks looked unfamiliar. The label is Kubaney (CD-147), and the cover announces it to be Made in Canada.
I now see that an album with same label and record ID but entitled Los Mejores Guitarras [sic] is for sale on Amazon:
Posts: 898
Joined: Dec. 6 2012
From: Lisboa, Portugal
RE: Provenance of Paco de Lucía tracks (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
The only ones from Paco I'm sure of are "Entre Dos Aguas" (obviously) and "Tarantos Populares". Paco has also recordings of "A Tu Vera", "Granada" and "El Vito" but the audio samples from the link above are not from his recordings.
I saw on a myspace page that "De Cadiz a Cuba", "Cuando Llora La Guitarra", "Sevillanas" and "Tonadilla" are also from Paco (when he was a kid), but that can't be trusted.
Also, if I had to guess I would say that "Mi Cairel", "Los Campanilleros", "Anda Jaleo" and "La Leyenda de Beso" are from Manolo, but that's just my guess, it can't be trusted either.
Many of this tunes are popular stuff and were recorded by many diferent artists in the past, it's not easy to tell who recorded what. Maybe Ricardo or Norman can help you on this.