| Buena Suerte, Señorita | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Flaco Jiménez |
| Cover: | Buena Suerte, Señorita.jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Label: | Arista Texas[1] |
| Producer: | Cameron Randle, Flaco Jiménez |
| Prev Title: | 15 Exitos |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Said and Done |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Buena Suerte, Señorita is an album by the American musician Flaco Jiménez, released in 1996.[2] [3] It was released around the same time as the Texas Tornados' 4 Aces.[4] The first single was "Borracho #1".[5]
The album was produced by Cameron Randle and Jiménez.[6] It was an attempt to recapture a rougher conjunto sound.[7] Some of Buena Suerte, Señorita songs were composed in the 1950s.[8] All of its vocals are in Spanish; Jiménez sang lead on some songs.[9]
Two of the songs are instrumentals.[10] "Tico Taco Polka" is an homage to "Tico Tico Polka", a song performed on The Lawrence Welk Show.[11] Oscar Tellez and Max Baca played bajo sexto and bass, respectively, on the album.[12]
The Austin Chronicle determined that "this is vintage Flaco with an all-star cast, making love to and on a passionate pillow of compressed air, the squeezebox between his arms."[13] Entertainment Weekly wrote that, "by mixing polka and waltz rhythms with Mexican folk flavors, he conjures up images of old-world Europe and Mexican dance halls." The Ottawa Citizen concluded that "the accordion in the hands of Jimenez has wit and wisdom, but overall his album suffers from a sameness of tone."[14]
The Los Angeles Times noted that Buena Suerte, Señorita "features rich conjunto-style vocal harmonies and a stripped-down 'garage band conjunto' feel."[15] Texas Monthly deemed it "an exceptional back-to-basics piece of cantina fare—dusty, dirty conjunto that wraps vocal harmonies and a bajo-sexto twelve-string rhythm around Flaco’s pile-driving squeeze-box leads."[16]
AllMusic called the album "good traditional accordion-based Tejano music from the king of the genre."