Beastly

Richie Ray & Bobbie Cruz are salsa legends, and this was supposedly their 1991 "farewell performance" (big hair and all). The keyboards are solid, the horns groove, the vocals sound like salsa vocals should sound but the song is about the awesomess of Richie Ray, percussionist, on the timbales. Thus the most important bit is the timbal solo at the end.

(Geeky aside: Spanish forms the plural by adding "-es" so you can tell that the Spanish "tamal" came into English in the plural as it's been singular-ized to "tamale" in English).

I seem to recall reading or hearing somewhere that they have since gotten back together (they might even be touring). This is them at the top of their game.

Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz
"Sonido Bestial"
Live World Salsa Festival 1991



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