Freddy Trujillo’s fifth solo album, Ave. Trujillo - about birds, or so it seems - is, I think, his most imaginative and certainly most ambitious work to date. He takes birds and...
My Sisters and Me, single, The Womack Sisters. The closing song on The Womack Sisters,  lovely debut album by the Womack Sisters (BG, Zeimani and Kucha), the daughters of the songwriters Linda...
Dream Chaser, album by Willie Nelson. What can I say? Nelson has a niche following in Mexico and Latin America, and a few of his songs have been covered in Spanish, but...
If your playlists lean even slightly Latin these days – as most do in the US - you’re probably already hearing Huasteca music – you just don’t know it. Those high, quivering...
Antes de Ti, video/single by Silvana Estrada & pablopablo. I really love this song. It is a spare, stripped-down bolero that just focuses on the voices. What I really love is the...
Baila, single by Los Horóscopos de Durango. The band’s singers, Vicky and Marisol Terrazas, daughters of the band’s founder, Armando Terrazas, were born in Chicago, but they strongly identify with their family’s...
Where is My Husband! single by Raye. A very up-tempo song that fuses several strands of Raye’s style into a brassy, almost show-tune-meets-R&B production, meets rapid rap. The song is about a...
I went to a birthday party for a train station on Friday night. Well, it used to be a train station; now it is the Gonzalez Gallo Cultural Center in Chapala, Mexico....
