{"id":381,"date":"2016-02-01T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-09-24T01:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:44:30","slug":"calexico-the-black-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Calexico: The Black Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blacklihjt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-445\" src=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blacklihjt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blacklihjt.jpg 250w, https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blacklihjt-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Originally published in\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">Alternative Press<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0magazine<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>That Joey Burns and John Covertino have a rock and roll resume a mile long (including projects with the Friends of Dean Martinez, Victoria Williams, Richard Buckner, and Giant Sand) isn\u2019t necessarily relevant. That they live in Tucson, Arizona\u2014home to the largest mariachi festival in the world\u2014may not be relevant either, but it sure doesn\u2019t hurt.\u00a0<em>The Black Light\u00a0<\/em>is a nearly flawless soundtrack to lonesome Sonoran beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the opening washes of Link Wray\u2013style electric guitar, most of this record was performed on musical instruments that could be 100 years old: nylon string guitars, trumpets, cellos, shakers, accordions, and mandolins. That, and a shadowy\u00a0<em>dias de los muertos\u00a0<\/em>aura, gives this record its sense of timelessness. \u201cThe Ride (Pt. II)\u201d is a lulling, dead-cowboy ditty that employs vibes and Neil Harry\u2019s evocative steel-pedal guitar to put you down in sweet retreat. \u201cMinas de Cobra (for Better Metal)\u201d centers on Rigo Pedroza\u2019s elegant trumpet work, a couple of fiddle players, and a tango groove lively enough to get the skeletons up and dancing again\u2014for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The epic scope of this record is summarized in the closing instrumental, \u201cFrontera,\u201d which combines country, spy-movie music, mariachi, and ragged blues in celebration of the ultimate triumph of twilight. But even at its darkest,\u00a0<em>The Black Light\u00a0<\/em>still manages a sardonic grin here and there. Best enjoyed with a jug of cheap rioja, a pack of harsh cigarettes, and someone who believes in ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014John Pecorelli<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in\u00a0Alternative Press\u00a0magazine That Joey Burns and John Covertino have a rock and roll resume a mile long (including projects with the Friends of Dean Martinez, Victoria Williams, Richard Buckner, and Giant Sand) isn\u2019t necessarily relevant. That they live in Tucson, Arizona\u2014home to the largest mariachi festival in the world\u2014may not be relevant either, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpecorelli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}