{"id":43312,"date":"2026-02-13T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=43312"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:20:36","slug":"cordovas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2026\/02\/cordovas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordovas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"485\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a1422157358_16.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a1422157358_16.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a1422157358_16.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a1422157358_16.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a1422157358_16.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cordovasband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cordovas<\/a><\/span><\/span>, best lang geleden dat we het hier over die band hebben gehad. In 2017 bespraken we het opnieuw uitgebrachte debuut uit 2012. Nu ligt <strong>Back To Life<\/strong> (Yep Roc) in de winkels. Niet dat Cordovas het leven had gelaten tussen 2017 en nu; er werden in de tussentijd drie andere albums uitgebracht: <em data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"353\">That Santa Fe Channel<\/em> (2018), <em data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"377\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Destiny Hotel<\/em> (2020) en <em data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"406\">The Rose Of Aces<\/em> (2023), maar die kwamen op een of andere manier nooit tot een recensie hier.<br \/>\nToch maar even het geheugen opfrissen: Cordovas is de band rondom <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Joe Firstman<\/span><\/span> (gitaar, toetsen, zang) en<!--more--> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Lucca Soria<\/span><\/span> (gitaar en zang) en is tegenwoordig in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Nashville<\/span><\/span> gevestigd. Nog steeds specialiseert Cordovas zich in countryrock met prachtige samenzang, alsof je 50 jaar terug in de tijd getrokken wordt.In het jazzy <em data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"897\">Wings<\/em> hoor je de saxofoon van <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kamasi Washington<\/span><\/span>, die Firstman nog kent uit zijn tijd als bandleider bij de tv-show van <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Carson Daly<\/span><\/span>. Soms, zoals in <em data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1095\">Josefina<\/em>, neigen de mannen wel erg naar laidback country. Dat wordt gelukkig gecompenseerd door prachtige songs als <em data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1208\">Step Outside<\/em> en het afsluitende <em data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1240\">Black Sand<\/em>. Zo sprankelend als dat debuut is <em>Back To Life<\/em> echter niet; wel gewoon een fijne plaat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1317\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In april\/mei komt Cordovas voor een serie optredens naar de Lage Landen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3rY9Q3bxIU?si=7WhLaEuQhvvnM6Lz\" width=\"470\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordovas, best lang geleden dat we het hier over die band hebben gehad. In 2017 bespraken we het opnieuw uitgebrachte debuut uit 2012. Nu ligt Back To Life (Yep Roc) in de winkels. Niet dat Cordovas het leven had gelaten tussen 2017 en nu; er werden in de tussentijd drie andere albums uitgebracht: That Santa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43318,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions\/43318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}