Don Caballero
(Mike, Damon and Ian)
Boys, boys, boys! Or as a bored novice once wrote, "Isn't it a shame
whilst
good things are dying, we should hold in our hands the warm guns of others in
slippery armor so well as to slide across lit couches when the potential of
Eden's ransom lies at our feet. One shall labor temporarily, one shall
stir-fry, one shall get particularly drunk, but one shall never know where
heaven truly lay in a pedestrian state of stubborn alien-ness."
Or to put it more simply, could we be so terribly unclever that we fail to
hear the master scoff at journeys up shit-filled creeks in wire canoes?
Could the emperor of confidence wear such a fine robe that some hearts
would go so unwounded, they would not share water with the mule that would
carry their fortunes through the desert?
In Don Caballero's microcosm of the ongoing struggle, four two-fold darn
reasons are eight durations of heck. A double album two years in the
making, simply titled Don Caballero II. You'd have to be a paga / jock /
nympho not to like it.
Cindy Bells,
New Amsterdam Parish of Kickass Magazine
Not that being a pagan or jock a nympho is necessarily bad, but those three
together are quite a match for anyone. You know what that means...
Don Caballero is essentially from Pittsburgh. You got it, three rivers.
Don Caballero II, their second for Touch and Go, was recorded by producer
Al Sutton at White Room Studios in Detroit. It was actually in a white room.
Their first LP, For Respect, was recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini.
Yeah, Don Caballero is instrumental, what's it to ya? Most don't realise that
fact until they're told. They have been since their inception in 1991.
Their first two singles were as a trio! Yeah, you're sayin' "instrumental."
Well not on this album. They are more rock orientated than jazz, though
many have said the contrary. The drums are the lead, while the guitars
drive the beast. Emphasis on structure and composition, not to prove how
accomplished they are, but to kick it. Don Caballero bare all their yellowed
teeth, including fangs, on this one. Put it in, keep it in, and for
chrissakes, turn it up NOW!