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Joe Bataan’s Classic Debut Album ‘Gypsy Woman’ To Be Reissued

The record will be reissued on remastered vinyl and given its first-ever hi-res digital audio release

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Joe Bataan 'Gypsy Woman' - Courtesy: Craft Latino
Joe Bataan 'Gypsy Woman' - Courtesy: Craft Latino

Joe Bataan’s classic debut album Gypsy Woman is set to be reissued in remastered, audiophile-worthy format later this year.

The seminal 1967 record, which includes the hits “Gypsy Woman” and the first-ever recording of “Ordinary Guy”, will be re-released on Craft Latino on September 16. The King Of Latin Soul’s first album will be newly available on 180-gram vinyl pressed at Memphis Record Pressing and remastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. It will also be released in hi-res digital audio for the very first time.

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New Yorker Bataan formed his first band Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers in 1965, six months after being released from prison. The group combined Latin beats, R&B, and a combination of English and Spanish lyrics and were instrumental in establishing the boogaloo sound. In 1966, they signed with Fania Records, who would go on to release Gypsy Woman a year later.

The record would launch Bataan’s career and make him one of the biggest stars of the boogaloo era, as well as one of Fania’s most prolific artists – in five years with the label, he released eight albums, including 1968’s best-selling Riot!.

Gypsy Woman featured musical direction by the great Johnny Pacheco, while its title track was a nod to The Impressions’ 1961 hit of the same name. Rather than being a traditional cover, though, only its opening line bore similarities with Curtis Mayfield’s songwriting – where The Impressions’ song was softer and more mellow, Bataan’s went for a livelier approach.

Elsewhere, the album included one of Bataan’s signature hits in the emotional English-language ballad “Ordinary Guy,” as well as more boogaloo-style, English-language tracks in “Chickie’s Trombone,” “So Fine,” “Too Much Lovin’,” and “Figaro.”

Pre-order the Gypsy Woman vinyl reissue.

Gypsy Woman tracklist (vinyl): 

Side A

1. Gypsy Woman
2. So Fine
3. Fuego
4. Campesino
5. Chickie’s Trombone

Side B 

1. Too Much Lovin’
2. Sugar Guaguancó
3. Figaro
4. Ordinary Guy 

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