Biography:
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona based, Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock, band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their 2005 EP In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi, conjunto, cumbia, tejano, as well as country, jazz, and post-rock.
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Other songs:
- Across The Wire
- All Systems Red
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- Bisbee Blue
- Cruel
- Epic
- Falling From The Sky
- Father Mountain
- Frank's Tavern
- Maybe On Monday
- Splitter
- Algiers
- Alone Again Or
- Ballad Of Cable Hogue
- Bend To The Road
- Beneath The City Of Dreams
- Better And Better
- Black Heart
- Bridge To Nowhere
- Bullets And Rocks
- Corona
- Crooked Road And The Briar
- Dead In The Water
- Edge Of The Sun
- End Of The World With You
- Feast Of Wire
- Flores Y Tamales
- Follow The River
- Fortune Teller
- Fractured Air
- Franks Tavern
- Garden Ruin
- Gift X Change
- Gilbert
- Green Grows The Holly
- Half A Smidge
- House Of Valparaiso
- Hush
- Landing Field
- Lost In Space
- Low Expectations
- Man Made Lake
- Miles From The Sea
- Missing
- Moon Never Rises
- Music Box
- Nom De Plume
- Not Even Stevie Nicks
- One More Cup Of Coffee
- Panic Open String
- Para
- Puerto
- Quattro World Drifts In
- Red Blooms
- Removed
- Roka
- Service And Repair
- Si Tu Disais
- Slowness
- Spokes
- Sunken Waltz
- Tapping On The Line
- The News About William
- The Ride Part Ii
- The Town And Miss Lorraine
- The Vanishing Mind
- Two Silver Trees
- Victor Jaras Hands
- Voices In The Field
- When The Angels Played
- Windjammer
- Woven Birds
- Writers Minor Holiday
- Yours And Mine
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CALEXICO: Slowness
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(album: Carried to Dust, 2008)
This is a beautiful tune off the Calexico's 2008 "Carried to Dust" album. It was
nowhere to be found tabbed on the Net, so when I discovered a good solo acoustic
rendition by Calexico's own Joey Burns, it went without questioning... The video,
by the way, is here (worthwhile): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaMaYExIjE
There are still a few parts of the song where caution is advised - in the kinda
pre-chorus line and then at the end of the chorus. Those parts are hard to figure
out from the video, but you can simply rely on my version transcribed here - it
works (I promise:-).
Juraj, Slovakia ([email protected])
Chords:
C Em Dm G F ?/G# Am D* Fmaj7 C/B G/B
e|--0--0--1--3--1---x--0--0---0------------|
b|--1--0--3--3--1---x--1--3---1-----1---3--|
g|--0--0--2--0--2---x--2--0---2-----0---0--|
D|--2--2--0--0--3---x--2--4---3-----x---x--|
A|--3--2-----2--3--(3)-0--5--(3)----2---2--|
E|-(3)-0-----3--1---4-----x----------------|
C Em
Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers
Dm G
Past Signal Hill a ways
C Em
We were parked and searching
Dm G
For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorns
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Stars still shone
C Fmaj7
In their slowness
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Took us by surprise
C Em
If I never told you how you helped to rescue
Dm G
The car and all inside
C Em
Remember roads were steep and
Dm G
You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass
F G ?/G# Am D*
You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
In that slowness
C
And that slowness
C/B G/B C
Has never gone away
(VERSE chords) [solo/melody/whistle] C Em Dm G x2
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7...
Stars still shone, stars still shone, stars still shone,
C Fmaj7...
In their slowness, in their slowness, in their slowness...
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Never gone awa-a-ay
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(album: Carried to Dust, 2008)
This is a beautiful tune off the Calexico's 2008 "Carried to Dust" album. It was
nowhere to be found tabbed on the Net, so when I discovered a good solo acoustic
rendition by Calexico's own Joey Burns, it went without questioning... The video,
by the way, is here (worthwhile): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaMaYExIjE
There are still a few parts of the song where caution is advised - in the kinda
pre-chorus line and then at the end of the chorus. Those parts are hard to figure
out from the video, but you can simply rely on my version transcribed here - it
works (I promise:-).
Juraj, Slovakia ([email protected])
Chords:
C Em Dm G F ?/G# Am D* Fmaj7 C/B G/B
e|--0--0--1--3--1---x--0--0---0------------|
b|--1--0--3--3--1---x--1--3---1-----1---3--|
g|--0--0--2--0--2---x--2--0---2-----0---0--|
D|--2--2--0--0--3---x--2--4---3-----x---x--|
A|--3--2-----2--3--(3)-0--5--(3)----2---2--|
E|-(3)-0-----3--1---4-----x----------------|
C Em
Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers
Dm G
Past Signal Hill a ways
C Em
We were parked and searching
Dm G
For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorns
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Stars still shone
C Fmaj7
In their slowness
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Took us by surprise
C Em
If I never told you how you helped to rescue
Dm G
The car and all inside
C Em
Remember roads were steep and
Dm G
You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass
F G ?/G# Am D*
You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
In that slowness
C
And that slowness
C/B G/B C
Has never gone away
(VERSE chords) [solo/melody/whistle] C Em Dm G x2
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7...
Stars still shone, stars still shone, stars still shone,
C Fmaj7...
In their slowness, in their slowness, in their slowness...
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Never gone awa-a-ay
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