Bruce Springsteen, his new album Inyo has Mexican themes and musicians
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Bruce Springsteen, his new album Inyo has Mexican themes and musicians
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In a press release that might elevate some eyebrows this week, Felix Contreras boldly claims on this week’s episode: “If Bruce Springsteen have been Mexican, he would have written Los Tigres del Norte’s iconic track ‘La Jaula de Oro.'”
The context is a dialog with Anamaria Sayre about Springsteen’s songwriting on an upcoming unreleased album by Springsteen known as Inyo. It’s a assortment of songs with themes of immigration, Mexican tradition, historical past and delight that was impressed by a bike trip throughout the Southwest within the mid-Nineties.
The album and its theme revive an Alt.Latino dialog about whether or not or not artists outdoors of a selected tradition can write and sing songs about that tradition.
Pay attention in to see how the query is resolved (not less than for this week) and uncover new music from Spain, Argentina and Dallas.
Featured artists and songs:
- Alleh & Yorghaki, “me late”
- Alleh & Yorghaki, “capaz (merengueton)”
- Louie TheSinger, “Faster Manner To Jesus”
- pablopablo, “Dónde Estás!”
- Bruce Springsteen, “Adelita”
- Bruce Springsteen, “Sinaloa Cowboys”
- Belafonte Sensacional, “Llamas Rexio”
- Belafonte Sensacional, “Todavía DF”
- David Byrne and Brian Eno, “America is Ready”
- Juana (feat. ELENI), “La Paloma”
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and combined by Simon Rentner. Editorial help from Hazel Cills. Our challenge supervisor is Grace Chung. NPR Music’s government producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
