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01. Tommy Guerrero - And The Folklore Continues
02. Tommy Guerrero - La Califas Perdido
03. Tommy Guerrero - I Would Go With You
04. Tommy Guerrero - No Time For Time
05. Tommy Guerrero - Calling For Ya!
06. Tommy Guerrero - Bloodinthemud
07. Tommy Guerrero - Zapata's Boots
08. Tommy Guerrero - Mosaic Man
09. Tommy Guerrero - What Have I Been Doing Since I Was Gone?
10. Tommy Guerrero - Paper Switchblade
11. Tommy Guerrero - Never Forget To Remember
12. Tommy Guerrero - Run With The Hunted
13. Tommy Guerrero - New Terrain
14. Tommy Guerrero - 40 Summers
15. Tommy Guerrero - The Simple Man
ARTIST
TITLE
Return Of The Bastard
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BEWITH 156LP BEWITH 156LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/12/2024

Tommy Guerrero's revered Return Of The Bastard gets its first ever vinyl reissue. Endearingly simple but beautifully beguiling, it's lo-fi dusty break business with the most elegant guitars this side of Vini Reilly and Gabor Szabo. Tommy's breezy drum-machine guitar-soul should be prescribed to soothe an aching world. By rights, he should also be a Balearic god. Here's 14 tracks of drop-dead laconic beauty, all of them combining to create this unheralded masterpiece. Working with Tommy directly, the LP has been fully remastered and sounds as dazzlingly, heartbreakingly beautiful as it did back in 2007. As ever, there's heavenly Latin guitar stylings that make you swoon and the melancholic vibe is accentuated by the addition of some melodic wordless vocals from Tommy. The head-nod funk of "Calling For Ya!" features Curumin delivering the clever title as a hypnotic vocal refrain peppered throughout, all hung around some buried spoken word vocals and gorgeous cello work from Lenny Gonzalez. "Bloodinthemud" is a low-down gritty funk workout whilst "Zapata's Boots" is a total low-key groover, all Latin percussion and Morricone muscle aided by a whistled Spaghetti Western melody. The upbeat and bright "40 Summers," featuring congas from Alfredo Ortiz, is as clean and poppy as Tommy gets and it really is a look he wears incredibly well. Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possible quality at Record Industry in Holland. The original and iconic sleeve, designed by Natas Kaupas, has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue. Part of Be With's Tommy Guerrero reissue campaign. 140g-vinyl.