Music for All Occasions

International version features one bonus track a beautiful cover of 'Blue Moon'. On this, the Mavericks' fourth album, Malo and his three bandmates demonstrate their complete mastery of this territory with its heavily echoed vocals, its low-pitched guitar figures, its chunky backbeat, and its claustrophobic sense of romance that is almost right but not quite. Bassist Robert Reynolds's ex-wife Trisha Yearwood sings a duet with Malo on Nancy Sinatra's 'Something Stupid', but the album's highlights are the four songs Malo cowrote with former NRBQ guitarist Al Anderson, including a Tex-Mex rave-up juiced by accordion legend Flaco Jimenez. Universal.