Rolling Stone Buena Vista Social Club Drop Previously Unreleased Track ‘Vicenta’ From Upcoming Reissue
25th-anniversary edition of landmark self-titled album will be packed with unheard material from the original 1996 sessions
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Buena Vista Social Club have unearthed a previously unreleased track, “Vicenta,” which will appear on the upcoming 25th-anniversary reissue of the Cuban outfit’s acclaimed self-titled album, out September 17th via World Circuit Records.
Penned by Compay Segundo, “Vicenta” recounts the story of a 1909 fire that destroyed nearly all of the village of La Maya, located outside of Santiago. Buena Vista Social Club’s version of the song is presented as a duet between Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, who was born and raised in La Maya.