Buena Vista Social Club
By: Ry Cooder ... [et al.].
Publisher: World Circuit; Nonesuch
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [Red Bank, N.J.]; New York
Language: spa
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Popular music; Sones; Dance music; Spanish Songs
Notes: Compact disc.

Vocal and instrumental popular music of Cuba: sons, danzóns, jazz, criolla, etc.

"A World Circuit production"--Container.

Program notes by Nick Gold and Nigel Williamson, and song texts with English translations (47 p.) in container.

Compay Segundo, vocals, guitar, congas; Eliades Ochoa, vocals, guitar; Ibrahim Ferrer, vocals, bongos, clave; Ry Cooder, acoustic & electric slide guitar, guitar, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion; Ruben Gonzalez, piano; additional personnel: Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, conductor, guiro, background vocals; Julio Alberto Fernandez, vocals, maracas; Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, vocals, congas; Omara Portuondo, vocals; Benito Suarez Magana, guitar; Barbarito Torres, laoud; Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, trumpet; Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Salvador Repilado Labrada, bass; Joachim Cooder, drums, udu drum, dumbeck, conga; Alberto "Virgillo" Valdes, maracas, background vocals.

Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, Mar., 1996.
Table of contents: title: Chan chan; title: De camino a la vereda; title: El cuarto de Tula; title: Pueblo nuevo; title: Dos gardenias; title: ¿Y tu que has hecho?; title: Veinte años; title: El carretero; title: Candela; title: Amor de loca juventud orgullecida; title: Murmullo; title: Buena Vista Social Club; title: La bayamesa.