Juanes recorded the excellent “MTV Unplugged” “live” with a great collection of his hits with different arrangements and instrumentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOn the other hand, the recently released “Salsa Giants” has a good compilation of hits (with a few exceptions that I did not enjoy) but offered nothing new in terms of performance. Yet, “Salsa Giants” climbed to the #2 position in Billboards Top Latin Albums (Juanes MTV Unplugged reached #1). How come? Because of the star power and compilation of Salsa music hits the album has. If Latin music fans don’t have most of the music contained in the album, the compilation of hit will drive sales, as it doesn’t matter how the hits are performed.<\/p>\n
More “Live” Latin Music Albums<\/h3>\n I’m currently working on the review of Juan Luis Guerra’s “Asondeguerra Tour”. It’s another great compilation of the Grammy winning Dominican singer-songwriter. The question is, does it deliver enough new music to make it worth while? I will evaluate this and future “Live” albums from these two perspectives; how good is the quality of the compilation of music, and how much different is the performance from the originals.<\/p>\n
Maybe I was wrong in my recommendation of “Salsa Giants”. I enjoyed listening to the “Salsa Giants” album, but I did not recommend you buy it since the songs were performed almost exactly as in the original. To me there is no value added if you have the original music. But, what if you don’t have the original music? Then it may make good sense. And it seems that many people found good sense in buying it.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned to the “Asondeguerra Tour” review coming shortly!<\/p>\n
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Many of us seem to like “live” Latin music albums. I base this observation in that\u00a0“Live” albums are selling very well. On Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart, 3 of the top 10 are “Live” albums. But the question\u00a0I have\u00a0is why do we like “live” albums so much? I’ll share with you what I look for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,269,13,690,684],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Why are Latin music "Live" albums popular? - Latino Music Cafe<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n