He will not turn 40 until July 16, but Ruben Blades has already given himself the perfect birthday present. Anyone who wants is welcome to share it too. It was an early gift -- showing up, as it did, some four months before the big day -- but it casts a wider glow than a forest of candles planted on a piece of pastry. Blades went out and made himself a great record.
He has done this before, but always in Spanish. Nothing But the Truth is his first record in English, and, with collaboration from the likes of Elvis Costello,...
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