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....
Country Jose McDonald died yesterday, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Berkeley, California. I saw Country Jose many times during the 60’s: at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, June 1967,...
 Agua y Sol, single by Laura Dryer. Happy, melodic flute-led jazz with a Brazilian feel from this New York-based saxophonist, flutist, and composer whose original music fuses lyrical jazz with Brazilian rhythms...
