Description
Lila Downs – Shake Away / Manhattan Records Audio CD 2008 / 0946 3 92437 2 3
UPC 0094639243723
Shake Away (Spanish: Ojo de Culebra) is the sixth studio album by Mexican singer-songwriter Lila Downs. It was released on 2 September 2008 on Manhattan Records. After attaining international success in 2001 with her first English record, Border, Downs wanted to release a fifth Spanish-English language project as its followup. In the vein of her earlier work, the album is heavily influenced by world music, flamenco and rock. Downs enlisted Paul Cohen as executive producer, also working with Celso Duarte, Brian Lynch and Aneiro Taño.
At its release Shake Away received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented Lila's evolution from her earlier work. The album debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard Top Latin Albums, with first-week sales of 30,000 copies. Internationally, the album topped the charts in Argentina, Germany, Mexico and Spain. Shake Away was nominated at Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards, and the Top World Music Majors at the WOMEX Awards.
Five singles were released to promote the album. Although its lead single ("Ojo de Culebra") was the only track to reach the US Billboard Hot 100, the follow-up singles "Perro Negro", "Yo Envidio el Viento", "Tierra de Luz" and "Black Magic Woman" enjoyed moderate success on the Hot Latin Songs, World Music Songs and Latin Pop Airplay charts. The projects were promoted with the Ojo de Culebra Tour in 2009 and 2010, which visited the Americas, Asia and Europe.
| Label: | Manhattan Records – 0946 3 92437 2 3 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
2008 |
| Genre: | Rock, Latin, Pop, Folk, World, & Country |
| Style: | Fusion |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Little Man | 3:47 | |
| 2 |
Ojo De Culebra |
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4:04 |
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| 3 | Minimum Wage | 4:08 | |
| 4 | Perro Negro |
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3:02 |
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| 5 | Yo Envidio El Viento (I Envy The Wind) | 3:44 | |
| 6 | Skeleton | 3:02 | |
| 7 | Black Magic Woman |
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3:12 |
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| 8 | I Would Never | 4:44 | |
| 9 | Justicia |
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3:51 |
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| 10 | Taco De Palabras | 3:05 | |
| 11 | Los Pollos |
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3:17 |
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| 12 | Tierra De Luz |
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3:41 |
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| 13 | Silent Thunder | 4:44 | |
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Bonus Tracks |
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| 14 | Shake Away | 3:45 | |
| 15 | I Envy The Wind | 3:45 | |
| 16 | Nothing But The Truth |
3:53 |
- Accordion – Rob Curto
- Acoustic Guitar – Angelito Chacon (tracks: 16)
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Juancho Herrera, Ken Basman (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 9, 13), Raul Midón (tracks: 4)
- Arranged By – Lila Downs, Paul Cohen (5)
- Arranged By [Horn Arrangements] – Brian Lynch
- Bass – Booker King
- Clarinet – Anat Cohen (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 7, 13)
- Drums, Percussion – Yayo*
- Engineer – Aneiro Taño, Dave Darlington*
- Harp, Violin, Guitar, Jarana, Guitar [Leona Jarocha], Vihuela, Charango, Quenacho, Sampona – Celso Duarte
- Mastered By – Greg Calbi
- Producer – Aneiro Taño, Brian Lynch, Lila Downs, Paul Cohen (5)
- Tambourine, Rattle [Quijada] – Gilberto Gutierrez* (tracks: 11)
- Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Paul Cohen (5)
- Translated By – Lila Downs (tracks: 5)
- Trombone, Tuba – Clark Gayton (tracks: 1, 4, 7, 11, 13)
- Trumpet, Horn [Alto Horn] – Brian Lynch (tracks: 1, 4 to11, 13 to 16)
- Voice – Lila Downs
- Written-By – Lila Downs, Lucinda Williams (tracks: 5), Paul Buchanan (tracks: 8), Paul Cohen (5), Peter Green (2) (tracks: 7), Traditional (tracks: 11)
