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homestead

Happy Homestead
(12 Songs on the Paradox of the Human Condition...and a Waltz)
RootaVega Records, 2009

"Homestead is what Carnivaleros music really is, 110% this time, and what that is, is infectious as hell, swingin' like a gin-swozzled junebug, and as sage as a grinning ranch-hand looking toward darkening skies."
Mark S Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange, 2009

Lyrics and musician's credits can be found here.


Listen and/or buy Happy Homestead
at CD Baby



lost

Lost In the Graveyard
RootaVega Records, 2006

"The Carnivaleros occupy that ghostly twilight niche manned by lurking gatherings of really good musicians who keep a tight lock on neighborhood familiarity and loose professionality by capturing a Saturday Night vibe and keeping it firmly stoked."
Mark S Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange, 2007

"Lost in the Graveyard is as good as it is crazy."
Dave Howell, rambles.net, 2007

Listen and/or buy Lost In the Graveyard at CD Baby

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Step Right Up!
RootaVega Records, 2003

"The Carnivaleros sound like their name suggests - an amalgam of Tex-Mex, circus music, Zydeco, traditional Western, spy themes, Eastern European motifs, and everything else under the sun."
Stephen Siegel, Tucson Weekly, 2003

" 'Step Right Up!,' is a firecracker of extraordinary musicianship and genre-bending songs. In terms of musicianship, this group and CD can stand with any we've heard this year (local or national)."
TJ Buck, Tucson Citizen, 2003

Listen and/or buy Step Right Up! at CD Baby


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"We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent."
-Oscar Wilde, Intentions, 1891
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