I love the conversation on Listen--it is to yourself, someone else or both? Provocative.  Also really like the bluesy/jazzy/conversational feeling on Yesterdays Blues--very heartfelt! Thank you--once again, for touching lyrics and excellent music!
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He\'s done it again, that Ricardo.  Just as his music sets my toe to tapping and making the smile wide, he manages to reach beyond intelligent humor to touch the recesses of my heart.  Great musical feat!
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With a kind of elders fireside storywork RICARDO and his friends lay a playfull edge to some present day elements of irony.  Their happy time eclectic swing is conversational and a great compliment to a mornings coffeetime.   His "love em anyway" is such a reminder of tolerance in a crazy world as are many of the other pieces.  This is a sonically clean album where the pure sounds of fine 
instruments and many mooded periods are like a fine wine ...complex.  And that's why it remains of interest.  His philosophy is rendered in musical parables ...and encourages us to view life like a fine refrain.
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Ricardo is a gifted guitarist whose fingerwork will excite your admiration. He has a sophisticated understanding of his instrument, and draws from it chords that evoke alternately poignancy, laughter, and joy. Listen to his lyrics: they are witty and talk about things you think about every day. I play this album regularly.
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