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Little Village: Little Village

Max Bell, Vox, April 1992

INITIAL REACTION to Little Village — a sort of super-ish group-type thing — leads one to ponder the question: why? Was this summit meeting of great talents Ry Cooder (hurray!); John Hiatt (hurrah!); Jim Keltner (bravo!); Nick Lowe (err...) — convened by chance or design? I suspect that strings have been pulled to persuade the venerable Ry Cooder that the time is ripe for him to dip his toes back into life after soundtracks. By happy coincidence the resulting album sounds fantastic. Whether the Little Village people's songs will stand up to much scrutiny after their recent mini-tour is less certain.

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