San Patricio (album)

San Patricio is an album by the Irish musical group, The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder, released in 2010. It was their first album with Hear Music and the first studio album in over six years since Further Down the Old Plank Road (2003). It tells the story of the San Patricio battalion—a group of mainly Irish immigrant volunteer soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army in 1846 to fight on the Mexican side in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). The album features collaborations with Moya Brennan, Linda Ronstadt (in what remains her most recent commercial recording), Liam Neeson, Los Cenzontles, Los Tigres del Norte, Lila Downs, Van Dyke Parks, Carlos Núñez, and Chavela Vargas (among others).[1][2]

San Patricio
Studio album by The Chieftains, Ry Cooder
Released	9 March 2010
Recorded	Ireland / Mexico
Genre	World fusion Latin/Celtic Celtic fusion Mexican traditional Norteño Ranchera Son Tejano Irish traditional
Length	61:39
Label	Hear Music
Producer	Paddy Moloney, Ry Cooder
The Chieftains, Ry Cooder chronology
The Essential Chieftains (2006) San Patricio (2010) Voice of Ages (2012)
Ry Cooder chronology
I, Flathead (2008) San Patricio (2010) Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011)

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Track listing

1. "La Iguana" (Traditional, arr. Paddy Moloney, L. Downs) – 3:34 (with Lila Downs)
2. "La Golondrina" (Traditional, arr. P. Moloney, Los Folkloristas) – 3:08 (with Los Folkloristas)
3. "A la Orilla de un Palmar" (Traditional, arr. L. Ronstadt) – 3:32 (with Linda Ronstadt)
4. "Danza de Concheros" (Traditional, arr. P. Moloney, Los Folkloristas) – 1:29 (with Los Folkloristas)
5. "El Chivo" (Traditional, arr. Julian Gonzalez) – 2:05 (with Los Cenzontles)
6. "San Campio" (P. Moloney) – 2:45 (with Carlos Núñez)
7. "The Sands of Mexico" (R. Cooder) – 4:47 (with Ry Cooder)
8. "Sailing to Mexico" (P. Moloney) – 2:00 (with Carlos Núñez)
9. "El Caballo" (Traditional, arr. Los Camperos de Valles, P. Moloney) – 2:40 (with Los Camperos de Valles)
10. "March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande)" (Music: P. Moloney, lyric: Brendan Graham) – 4:10 (with Banda de Gaita de Batallón de San Patricio, Liam Neeson, Los Cenzontles, L.A. Juvenil)
11. "Lullaby for the Dead" (Music: P. Moloney, lyric: Brendan Graham) – 4:36 (with Moya Brennan)
12. "Luz de Luna" (Álvaro Carrillo) – 3:30 (with Chavela Vargas)
13. "Persecución de Villa" (Samuel Margarito Lozano) – 2:55 (with Mariachi Santa Fe de Jesus (Chuy) Guzman)
14. "Canción Mixteca (Intro)" (Jose Lopez Alavez) – 2:54 (with Ry Cooder, Van Dyke Parks)
15. "Canción Mixteca" (Jose Lopez Alavez) – 3:14 (with Los Tigres del Norte)
16. "Ojitos Negros" (Traditional, arr. Eugene Rodriguez) – 2:24 (with Los Cenzontles)
17. "El Relampago" (Traditional, arr. P. Moloney, L. Downs) – 3:15 (with Lila Downs)
18. "El Pájaro Cu" (Traditional, arr. La Negra Graciana, P. Moloney)– 2:35 (with La Negra Graciana)
19. "Finale" (Traditional, arr. P. Moloney) – 5:46 (with Los Cenzontles, Carlos Núñez, Los Folkloristas, Banda de Gaita de Batallón de San Patricio, L.A. Juvenil)

Bonus Disc – DVD (Deluxe Edition only)

1. "The Making of San Patricio"
2. "La Iguana" (with Lila Downs)
3. "Canción Mixteca" (with Los Tigres del Norte)
4. "Luz de Luna" (with Chavela Vargas)

Personnel

in alphabetical order

Olga Alanis – percussion Juan Carlos Allende – guitar Sergio Alonso – harp Pancho Alvarez – bouzouki Stephen Armstrong – assistant engineer Hugo Arroyo – tuba, vocals, guitarron, quijada Ersi Arvizu – vocals Jose Avila – percussion Marisa Bautista – vocals Moya Brennan – vocals Jorge López Calderón – drums (snare) Rene Camacho – bass, bass (upright) Edmar Castaneda – harp, cuatro Gabriel Castañón – assistant engineer Paul Cohen – vocals Larissa Collins – art direction, package design Kevin Conneff – bodhrán, lilting Ry Cooder – guitar, piano, composer, timbales, vocals, producer, laud Raúl Cuellar – violin Robert Curto – accordion Lila Downs – vocals, arranger, step dancing Ernesto Villalobos – fiddle, jarana, vocals Celso Duarte – fiddle, harp, vocals Mary Farquharson – coordination, research Raúl Durrand Flores – assistant engineer Sofia Fojas – violin Arturo Gallardo – clarinet Julian Gonzalez – violin, arranger

Bernie Grundman – mastering Jesus "Chuy" Guzman – violin Carlos Henderson – bass Camilo Ramirez Hernandez – violin Eduardo Hernández – bass (electric), vocals, bass (acoustic) Hernán Hernández – bass (electric), vocals Hugo Hernandez – drums (bass) Jorgé Hernández – accordion, vocals Luis Hernández – accordion, vocals, bajo sexto Marcos Hernandez – vocals, huapanguera Ubaldo Hernandez – trumpet Juancho Herrera – guitar, vocals Don Hoffman – engineer Daniel García Hughes – drums (snare) Juan Jimenez – guitarron Jimmy Cuellar – violin Guadalupe Jolicoeur – coordination, art direction, research Seán Keane – fiddle Oscar Lara – drums Jeffrey Lesser – engineer Germán López – vihuela Steve Macklam – art direction Mariachi Santa Fe De Jesus (Chuy) Guzman – vocals Tríona Marshall – harp Neil Martin – cello Brian Masterson – engineer, mixing Bart Migal – assistant engineer, associate engineer

Matt Molloy – flute Paddy Moloney – arranger, composer, producer, liner notes, uilleann pipes, tin whistle, mixing, tin cans Rogelio Navarrate – clarinet Liam Neeson – narrator Niamh Ní Charra – concertina Adrian Nieto – mandolin, percussion Carlos Núñez – gaita, low whistle Xurxo Nunez – drums, guitar (electric), engineer Felipe Ochoa – vocals, requinto Marco Ochoa – vocals, jarana Van Dyke Parks – piano, accordion Miguel Pena – guitar Jon Pilatzke – fiddle, step dancing Martin Pradler – engineer Mike Riley – assistant engineer Alberto J. Rodríguez – assistant engineer Eugene Rodriguez – vihuela, arranger Gabriela Rodriguez – Percussion Javier Rodriguez – trumpet Juan Rodríguez – violin Luciana Rodriguez – vocals Albert J. Roman – design assistant Linda Ronstadt – vocals, arranger Yayo Serka – cajon Graciana Silva – harp, vocals Gregorio Solano – vocals, jarana Samuel Torres – conga, maracas, cajon Fabiola Truijillo – vocals Omar Valdez – percussion Chavela Vargas – vocals Efrén Vargas – mandolin, percussion Rodolfo Vazquez – engineer, field recording

See also

• List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s

External links

• The Chieftains official website – official website
• San Patricio at AllMusic

References

1. Ph.D., Jacqueline Edmondson (3 October 2013). Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-313-39348-8.
2. Pinheiro, John C. (2 April 2014). Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War. Oxford University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-19-994867-3.