"The Mountain Goats Rhythm" is called a Tresillo

'The Mountain Goats Rhythm' is called a Tresillo Today I learned that the rhythm that I have just thought of as “the Mountain Goats rhythm,” the one that goes “ONE-two-three-ONE-two-three-ONE-two,” is actually called a “tresillo.” I was going to dash off a quick post about it, but a Web search for “mountain goats tresillo” didn’t turn up anything obvious so I ended up feeling like I needed to…