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Deep Dives: Los Pingüinos del Norte

Deep Dives: Los Pingüinos del Norte

Los Pingüinos del Norte have a special place in the history of Arhoolie Records. Their 1970 LP Music of La Raza Vol. 1 was the first...

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Narciso Martínez Interview

Narciso Martínez Interview

Narciso Martínez Interview Narciso Martínez, born in 1911, in Reynosa, Tamalipas, across the Texas-Mexico border, is known as the “father” of the Texas-Mexican conjunto.  Upon making...

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Fred Zimmerle Interview

Fred Zimmerle Interview

Zimmerle recalls his early experiences with music, “we used to have a console Victrola that I used to wind it all the time. And it must’ve been around the age of six, when I started to sing and play the guitar.” … “And when I reached the age of four… At that time, I became a leader of a band at that school.”

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Balde Gonzalez Interview

Balde Gonzalez Interview

Baldemar (Balde) González was born on May 30, 1928, in Beeville, Texas. Sightless since birth, he attended the school for the blind in Austin, Texas, where he learned to play piano, clarinet and saxophone.

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Little Joe Hernandez Interview 1991

Little Joe Hernandez Interview 1991

Little Joe Hernández, from Temple, Texas, was born in 1940 and began his career as a musician in the late fifties, trying to break into the surging rock-and-roll market.

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