What's The Story?
These guys are nifty. A fella and a lady from Mexico who grew up loving heavy metal, they moved to Ireland and started a career in flamenco guitar. The album this tune comes from, 11:11 features 11 songs, each inspired by a different rock/metal artist. This one's for Hendrix.
Who's To Blame?
An old friend who's probably a hipster, but has the right attitude about it.
Why ♥ It?
Flamenco guitar in general is wonderful and flexible music. There aren't too many situations where it's inappropriate. What Rodrigo y Gabriela bring to the table is a style that, like both themselves and myself, grew up on the hard stuff.
Buster Voodoo features a wonderfully catchy rhythm refrain that's paired with a catchier lead, plenty of blinding & technical solos, and hand-slapping percussion on the guitars that makes you forget that there isn't actually a percussionist.
As long as you're okay with not having something to sing along to, this song is as good as it gets.
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