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Rough Guide:  Tex-Mex
Various Artists
Rough Guide: Tex-Mex
Genres: International Music, Rock, Latin Music
 
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Latin music has been burning for years on the Tex-Mex border. Tejano conjunto, as it's known, is all about the vibrant pleasures of the accordion (introduced by Bohemian immigrants in the 19th century), dramatic voices, an...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Rough Guide: Tex-Mex
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: World Music Network
Original Release Date: 10/12/1999
Release Date: 10/12/1999
Genres: International Music, Rock, Latin Music
Styles: Mexico, Regional Mexican, Tejano, Norte?, Ranchera
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 605633103724

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Latin music has been burning for years on the Tex-Mex border. Tejano conjunto, as it's known, is all about the vibrant pleasures of the accordion (introduced by Bohemian immigrants in the 19th century), dramatic voices, and the 12-string bass guitar known as the bajo sexto. This well-curated and nicely annotated compilation draws from the great Tex-Mex music of the past half-century--from a spry Narciso Martinez polka recorded in 1946 to the contemporary drinking music of the young cross-cultural Austin band Los Pinkys. And while Mingo Saldivar's thrilling Spanish-language version of June Carter Cash's "Ring of Fire" makes the country-conjunto crossover explicit, each of these 19 tracks has a story to tell, and together they map out an exciting and extensive emotional territory. --Richard Gehr

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