Richie Valens - Rocks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2024 . Real Estate's sixth full-length album Daniel was recorded in an ebullient nine-day spree in RCA Studio A, in Nashville with celebrated producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian. In 11 compulsively tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of adulthood. Martin Courtney actually learned of Tashian through his daughter, who adored an album he'd produced, Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour. The band reached out and spotted an instant connection despite their distinct wheelhouses-the Grammy-winning Nashville country-pop guy who'd helmed several smashes and the Northeast indie rock quintet with narcotic guitars. Real Estate had been thinking about R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People and '90s Inchsoft-rock radio,Inch the background music of their youth. Tashian helped lead them back toward it, toward an improved edition of the less self-conscious band they'd been at the start.

Ritchie Valens was one of leading lights in what became known as the Chicano style of rock - music from the Mexican-American community of the USA, often sung in Spanish and heavily influenced by R&B, and often with a Latin flavour. He is also, of course, well-known for more tragic reasons, namely that he was one of the three rock 'n' roll stars along with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper who died in the fateful light aeroplane crash in Iowa on February 3rd 1959 - this marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day, immortalised in Don McLean's 1971 hit InchAmerican PieInch as InchThe Day The Music DiedInch. Ritchie was still only 17 years old when he died, but in his brief eight-month recording career he had already had three hits, two of which were in the Top 100 at the time of the accident. This collection comprises all his releases through to 1962, including the A and B sides of his singles for the Del-Fi tag and all the tracks from his two studio albums InchRitchie ValensInch and InchRitchieInch, which were not otherwise on his singles. It also includes all the tracks from his album InchIn Concert At Pacoima Jr. HighInch, which has one side that features 'live' recordings from one of his performances, the other side comprising unfinished demos with narrative by Bob Keane, owner of the Del-Fi tag. It naturally includes his No. 2 US hit InchDonnaInch along with it's famous hit B side InchLa BambaInch, along with his other hits InchCome On, Let's GoInch, InchThat's My Little SuzieInch and InchLittle GirlInch. It's an evocative showcase for a young talent who made a notable impact during his tragically brief career.

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