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Siembra

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Willie Colon/Ruben Blades

 
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If Willie Colon was the Beatles of salsa, this record is the genre's Abbey Road

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    The great Willie Colon. If Willie Colon (with Ruben Blades) was the Beatles of salsa, this record is the genre's Abbey Road. As my Smithsonian salsa history quotes someone as saying, this is "the biggest selling salsa record in history" (Faces of Salsa, p.85). What if the most important New York pop music after rock & roll is not hip-hop or the Ramones but the sort of thing exemplified by El Malo? If only WXRT in Chicago, for instance, would put down their Judybats and My Morning Jacket and REM records and play this one. What might that accomplish? Well, the station would be better.

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