El nombre Calexico, tomado de la población fronteriza norteamericana Calexico, California, define perfectamente a esta banda, ya que es la mezcla entre California y México.
Son un grupo norteamericano originario de Tucson, Arizona, amantes de los sonidos del mundo. Sus dos líderes, Joey Burns (voz y guitarra) y John Convertino (batería) comenzaron a tocar juntos en la banda angelina Giant Sand antes de fundar Calexico.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
CALEXICO: Slowness ------------------ (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:-).
CEm Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers DmG Past Signal Hill a ways CEm We were parked and searching DmG For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorns
FG ?/G#AmD* Although we couldn't see a thing that night
CFmaj7CFmaj7 Stars still shone CFmaj7 In their slowness C And their slowness C/BG/BC Took us by surprise
CEm If I never told you how you helped to rescue DmG The car and all inside CEm Remember roads were steep and DmG You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass
FG ?/G#AmD* You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering CFmaj7CFmaj7 In that slowness C And that slowness C/BG/BC Has never gone away
(VERSE chords) [solo/melody/whistle] CEmDmG x2
FG ?/G#AmD* Although we couldn't see a thing that night
CFmaj7CFmaj7... Stars still shone, stars still shone, stars still shone, CFmaj7... In their slowness, in their slowness, in their slowness... C And their slowness C/BG/BC Never gone awa-a-ay