La Musica De Baldemar Huerta (CD)

A beloved figure in the annals of musical Americana and one of the first Mexican-Americans to crack the country charts, Freddy Fender scored a huge hit in 1959 with the classic "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." Legal troubles sidelined Fender until the early 1970s when he reemerged as a chart force offering a smooth blend of American roots music that incorporated country, blues, Cajun music, and Mexican border sounds. In the early 1990s Fender, along with Lone Star music legends Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, and Flaco Jimenez, formed the Tex-Mex supergroup the Texas Tornados. The group released several albums together, and Fender continued to perform solo until his death in 2006.

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• Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Label: Back Porch Music
• UPC: 724381172025
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105782967
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #74801 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3346 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #1525 in General/Country (See Top 100 General/Country Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Freddy Fender (vocals); Michael Morales (vocals, percussion); Ron Morales, Joe Reyes (vocals); Chepe Solis (guitar, requinto); Jose Reyes, Juan A. Aguilar (guitar); Francisco "Pancho" Perez (guitarron); Bobby Flores, John Schattenberg (violin); Al Gomez (trumpet); Gabriel Zavala (accordion, percussion).

Producers: Michael Morales, Ron Morales, Joe Reyes.

Recorded at Studio M, San Antonio, Texas and at Deep South Music, Corpus

Christi, Texas.

LA MUSICA DE BALDEMAR HUERTA won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.

One of the last studio albums Freddy Fender completed before his death in 2006, LA MUSICA DE BALDEMAR HUERTA is a heartfelt, low-key tribute to the Mexican and Tex-Mex pop and folk music that the young Baldemar Huerta grew up with in south Texas before changing his name to Freddy Fender in the late 1950s. Enthralled by the likes of Lydia Mendoza and other stars of the time, Fender heard genre standards such as "Perfidia" and "Amor Perdido" long before the English-language covers became pop hits. He performs them here in the traditional, acoustic small-combo style of the time, with his weathered voice fitting perfectly in the simple arrangements. The album also includes two songs in English, remakes of Fender's 1970s country hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Secret Love" performed in the norteno style to make plain the musical connection to his roots.

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