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(Second album by the UARB for January 2011, Hacienda, released on April 6, 2010 by Alive Records)
By the way, let me give me a shout-out and congratulations to Hacienda for being featured in a current series of television commercials for the “cool ranch” promotion by Taco Bell.
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(Debut album by the UARB for January 2011, Hacienda, released on September 16, 2008 by Alive Records)
To some extent, I think that Providence guides my hand as I am writing. For example, in the post about the UARB Hacienda (one of the few current bands that I have written about), I started out talking about the Premiers in an examination of Hispanic rock bands and artists. Their song “Farmer John” – which Neil Young covered much later – is the next-to-last song on the classic compilation album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 and also the oldest, dating from 1964. As I struggled with how best to describe their sound – having been dissatisfied with the descriptions I had read in reviews and other places, including their own label’s promotional material – I realized that Hacienda’s music was actually quite similar to this song by the Premiers.
(June 2013/2)
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Along with the second album, Big Red and Barbacoa by past UARB Hacienda, I got a copy of his debut CD, Brian Olive in a surprise package of 3 albums that Suzy Shaw sent me in one of my Bomp! mailorder orders. Brian Olive was previously in two rock bands having long Wikipedia articles, the Greenhornes and Soledad Brothers, though there is no article on him individually.
(February 2015)
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