"Uplifting... It’s a challenge not to clap, tap, or sway along with
these rhythms...highlights the pleasure to be derived from cross
cultural relationships.” — No Depression
New Mexico string band Lone Piñon recorded the stirring, infectious Hot
Carne Seca in rural Eunice, Louisiana with GRAMMY-winner Joel Savoy
(Steve Earle, John Fogerty, Linda Ronstadt, T Bone Burnett, HBO's Tremé)
producing. With fiddles, upright bass, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual
vocals, they play a wide spectrum of New Mexican traditional music. The album
sees more of a vocal focus than past albums and mixing recent traditions with
songs with deep roots.
Lone Piñon has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Library
of Congress, Blackpot Festival, and the inauguration of New Mexico Governor
Michelle Lujan Grisham. The band have been honored with the Parsons Award
from the American Folklife Center. The 2019 documentary film “En Donde
los Bailadores se Entregan los Corazones" focuses on the band.
Hot Carne Seca's track listing reflects the complexity of New Mexico’s
interconnected musical cultures, and has included western swing, conjunto,
New Mexican Spanish and Mexican ranchera, Central Mexican son regional,
country, onda chicana, etc. around the core New Mexican polkas, cunas,
inditas, valses, and chotes learned from elders.
“Exceptionally good.”
— fRoots Magazine, UK