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Album Review of "Para Llevar" by Johnny Delaware (8/10)

Normaltown Records/New West Records

Producer: Johnny Delaware

South Dakota’s Johnny Delaware (does he know Pennsylvania’s Johnny Utah?) has traveled south of the border for inspiration on Para Llevar. The Susto founder literally did travel to Mexico City for writing, recording and producing this project, enlisting bolero-style instrumentation in making the album. “Incógnita” is, in fact, an instrumental featuring reverbed Spanish guitar fingerpicking.

Opener “Jungle Full of Ghosts” is old, new, North, South, all blending with a Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sensibility.