Lila Downs: Shake Away

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Little man — Ojo de culebra — Minimum wage — Perro negro — Yo envidio el viento (I envy the wind) — Skeleton — Black magic woman — I would never — Justicia — Taco de palabras — Los pollos — Tierra de luz — Silent thunder; bonus tracks: Shake away — I envy the wind — Nothing but the truth.
Ed Morales wrote in Newsday: "There are times on Lila Downs's new album … when she seems to be letting out deep emotions stored inside her for centuries. On such songs as 'Skeleton,' which is bolstered by jazzy rave-ups provided by her co-producer Brian Lynch; 'Silent Thunder,' a funk-blues number, or 'Little Man,' which manages to merge a calypso sensibility with the garish horns of Mexican banda music, she lets out unimaginable howls for the ages. But there's nothing quite like the guttural shouts she emits on the title track, a song she performed at her recent performance at Brooklyn's Prospect Park. '… Like a rattlesnake …,' she sang, and then got down on all fours, becoming a writhing rattlesnake, celebrating, letting all the pain go" (8/31/08).