![]() ![]() ∙ The album was recorded in six days, with sessions lasting only eight hours. ∙ The album was recorded in Havana’s historic EGREM studios, which still had much of its pre-revolutionary equipment dating back to the ’40s and ’50s. ∙ In 1970, singer/guitarist Compay Segundo gave up music and returned to rolling cigars, which had been his livelihood in the late ’30s. ∙ The original Buenavista Social Club was an actual place-a ’40s-era members-only club in Havana, exclusively for Afro-Cubans. Producer Ry Cooder originally intended to record Malian musicians and Cuban locals, but the Africans were unable to obtain visas, so he made an album of Cuban son instead.
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