2008 reissue of 2005 double CD set featuring recordings from 1997-2000 when Omara Portunondo started recording with the Buena Vista Social Club. She was nominated for a Grammy in 2004. This double CD, L grimas Negras (Black Tears), Canciones y Boleros, is the result of an interpretive creation full of feeling, intimacy, and naturalness. She returned to the Latin American popular classics -to Violeta Parra, to Virgilio Gonz lez, to Alberto Vera, to Eusebio Delf¡n- with a fabulous ensemble consisting of the great Rub‚n Gonz lez and Enriqueta Almanza"s piano, Richard Eges"s flute, Mart¡n Rojas"s magnificent guitar, the bass of Cacha¡to, Mirabal"s art in unraveling the mysteries of the brass instruments, Amadito Vald‚s"s paila with AfroCuban rhythms and the tasty percussion of Hern n Cort‚s, Roberto Garc¡a, and Osvaldo Rodr¡guez.