My review of Wednesday's David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) & Marc Ribot (ex-Tom Waits) concert at the Sydney Opera House is up at The Australian's website and in today's print copy.Extract:
MUSIC: David Hidalgo and Marc Ribot. Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 2.
"BETWEEN them these two American guitarists have played on some classic albums: David Hidalgo with Los Lobos's, Marc Ribot on Tom Waits's Rain Dogs and 2007's wondrous Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, among many others (his full credits are 
jaw-dropping).
Both are steeped in different sides of the sprawling entity that is Latin music, Hidalgo with his roots deep in Mexican and Tex-Mex (cross-border) stylings, Ribot's with Cuban dance music, as the name of his former band, Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans) clearly announced. Would they be able to stir together these diverse yet strongly related interests or would competing egos bring them undone?"
To find the answer to that, read on...
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