Patricia Vonne - Firebird

Released: 2007
Size: 88,9 MB
Time: 38:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Folk-Rock, Latin
Art: Full

01. Missing Women [2:57]
02. Hot Rod Heart [3:14]
03. Battle Scars [4:36]
04. Torera [4:06]
05. Jett Rink [3:05]
06. The Dogs Dance  [3:47]
07. La Huerta De San Vicente [4:00]
08. Dutch Cigarette  [2:52]
09. Karolina  [3:38]
10. Will We Ever Be [2:57]
11. Mujeres Desaparecidas (Bonus Track) [2:56]

Latin Roots Rocker and Troubadour Patricia Vonne releases "Firebird"
Patricia Vonne's remarkable third release "Firebird" is the payoff for seven years of hard work and cements the bilingual songstress's ability to deliver a perfect balance of Tex-Mex and roots-rock with strength, purpose and femininity. Vonne's excellent songwriting has a flare for romance, drama and fantasy, even while chronicling the ups and downs of everyday life.
"Firebird" opens with the haunting "Missing Women" a tribute to the hundreds of women murdered in Juarez, Mexico. Vonne made several trips to Juarez doing research for the song and shooting a video. She had the opportunity to meet many of the mothers of the victims' and has become very close to the project and in hopes of bringing more awareness to the campaign she has donated the song as a free download on the Amnesty International's website.The CD features a Spanish version of the same song, "Mujeres Desaparecidas" as a bonus track.Vonne's long time musical partner, Robert LaRoche former Virgin Recording artist 'The Sighs' , co-wrote five of the ten tunes and his stellar guitar work is the perfect accompaniment for Vonne's sultry vocals. They duet on the beautiful "Battle Scars".On "Firebird" Vonne works with an all star cast of musicians including Rick Del Castillo, Michael Hardwick, Steven Medina Hufsteter, Tito Larriva, David Perales, Michael Ramos, Joe Reyes, Scott Garber, Dony Wynn, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Carl Thiel.Every song on "Firebird" carries a great personal story from Vonne. She co-wrote with her childhood musical hero, Johnny Reno on "Hot Rod Heart," and was so inspired by visiting the home of late Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca in Granada, Spain that she wrote "La Huerta de San Vincente" about the experience. "Dutch Cigarette" chronicles the non-stop travel from 13 European tours that has elevated Vonne to playing huge festivals overseas, while the sweet "Karolina" is a tribute to the children in hospitals in NYC that Vonne would visit and sing to while a "musician on call"."Firebird" is a follow up to 2004's "Guitars and Castanets" and Vonne's self titled debut in 2002 and is a her best work yet and a fine addition to her ever growing musical legacy.

Firebird

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Patricia Vonne - Rattle My Cage

Released: 2013
Size: 83,7 MB
Time: 36:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Americana,Latin Flamenco-Rock,Tex-Mex,...
Art: Big Front

01. Rattle My Cage [4:53]
02. Dark Mile [4:07]
03. Ravage Your Heart [4:51]
04. Que' Maravilla [4:29]
05. This Cat's In The Doghouse [2:56]
06. Bitter Need [4:10]
07. Dulce Refugio [2:52]
08. Paris Trance [2:42]
09. Tequileros [3:02]
10. Mexicali De Chispa [2:10]

Rattle My Cage finds singer, songwriter, bandleader and actress Vonne collaborating on songs with some of the most distinguished Texas musicians that have inspired and informed her music: the late Doyle Bramhall, Alejandro Escovedo, Rosie Flores and Johnny Reno alongside some of her other favorite musical talents. The result, raves her hometown San Antonio Express News, "is her best, edgiest and most focused album yet. The image is tougher; so is the music."
The 10-song collection is suffused with Vonne's bracing passion, deep heart, and the determination that led her to make music her life, start her own label, Bandolera Records, and become a popular live attraction in not just Texas but Europe, where she recently completed her 21st tour, capped by an appearance at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Rattle My Cage also distills the distinctive multicultural rocking borderland roots style she has developed into its most potent and tantalizing brew to date.
The title track, co-written with Reno (who played saxophone with Stevie Ray Vaughan's original Double Trouble & Chris Isaak), opens the set with a shimmering blast of high-octane guitar rock sparked by the sexy muscularity of the customized classic hot rods that gather annually in Austin at the Lonestar Rod & Custom Round Up.
Similarly, her collaboration with Escovedo, "Ravage Your Heart," is a powerhouse mid-tempo rocker in which "a lover's kiss makes an angel sigh," and "Tequileros" is an intoxicating Tex-Mex rave-up penned with Alex Ruiz of Austin's flamenco rockers Del Castillo, whose bandmate Rick Del Castillo laces the number with whip-snapping electric guitar.
Vonne shows the range of flavors and styles that inform her music on the mesmeric Latin-tinged romantic plea of "Que Maravilla," the classicist cafe piano/singer crooning of "Bitter Need" (co-written with Peter Kingsbery from the pop band Cock Robin), the snappy Iberian dance of "Dulce Refugio" (written about the ravages of insomnia with San Antonio rocker Michael Martin of The Infidels), and the meld of hot gypsy jazz on "Paris Trance." One of her proudest moments on the disc is the bristling blues-tinged lament, "Dark Mile," written with Texas legend Doyle Bramhall, known for penning such hits with Stevie Ray Vaughan as "The House Is Rockin'" and "Change It." Vonne dips back into the 1950s on the rollicking number she wrote with her pal Rosie Flores, "This Cat's in the Doghouse" (which Flores also recorded on her last album). And then she closes the set by showing her impressive stuff on electric and acoustic guitars on the vividly Southwestern instrumental number, "Mexicali de Chispa," composed with her brother, famed filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
Vonne is backed on most tracks by her Band: longtime collaborator Robert La Roche (formerly of Virgin Records recording act The Sighs) on guitar, bassist Scott Garber (whose many credits include Giant Sand, Ronnie Lane, Escovedo, The Silos and more) and drummer Dony Wynn (who has worked with the likes of Robert Plant, Robert Palmer and Dr. John). Noted instrumental guests include such top Austin keyboard talents as Ian McLagan (of Small Faces/Faces fame), Bukka Allen and Michael Ramos plus Reno on saxophone and Joe Reyes (of Lara and Reyes) on nylon string guitar. The album is also her fourth outing helmed by producer/engineer and musician Carl Thiel, whose time growing up in Mexico City and vast musical vocabulary have made him an ideal studio foil for Vonne's stylistically broad sound.

Rattle My Cage

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