Cuatro Maestros

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#		Title	Length
1		Ay, Te Dejo En San Antonio	2:54
2		Cara De Pingo	2:39
3		El Pitayero	3:31
4		El Butaquito	5:04
5		Dos Ojitos	3:26
6		Cerca Del Mar	2:52
7		El Pajaro C	8:53
8		El Tesmo	3:24
9		Besos Y Copas	3:44
10		Josefinita	6:00
11		La Morena	5:33
12		El Son De Los Arrieros Viejo	4:22
13		Angel Mio	2:55
14		Male Rosita	5:59

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Cuatro Maestros (Four Masters) is a collection of songs in four Mexican regional styles that both features and honors four master artists and the traditions from which they come. These artists, Santiago Jimenez Jr., Atilano Lopez, Julian Gonzalez, Andres Vega (of Grupo Mono Blanco) are joined by youth group Los Cenzontles whom they have mentored over the years. The styles represented are Tex-Mex, Pirekuas and sones of Indigenous Michoacan, traditional mariachi of Jalisco and son jarocho of Veracruz.

This collection of traditional and popular songs was borne out of the relationship between the masters and their apprentices. Each of the four maestros featured here learned music in a family setting and grew up in a time when Mexico and South Texas was still largely rural. These songs were first played in times and places where a performance was hardly distinguishable from a communal celebration. The musician, usually a rancher or laborer by day, was an integral part of any community s social life. Folk dances were not the stiff anthropological presentations they can often be today, but vital and fun social events in which everybody could participate. Folk music and dance provided the rhythms and lyrics that contextualized villagers' daily lives.

The music presented here is also a beautiful reminder of how the communal making and sharing of music can help children and young adults to articulate themselves and feel more connected to the world around them.