...Closeness to the roots is also a great strength of the new-generation accordionists who have renewed what was a dying glory. The breathtaking
Fefita is far more tearaway than the old guys both in her singing and her blazing playing. But she's still basically as country as they come. Even the battiness of the sax (whose presence technically makes this music "perico ripiao," if you're into nomenclature) is a kind of super-charged rural joviality.