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 tune ‘La Jaula de Oro.'”
The context is a dialog with Anamaria Sayre about Springsteen’s songwriting on an upcoming unreleased album by Springsteen referred to as Inyo. It’s a assortment of songs with themes of immigration, Mexican tradition, historical past and pleasure that was impressed by a bike journey throughout the Southwest within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
The album and its theme revive an Alt.Latino dialog about whether or not or not artists exterior of a specific tradition can write and sing songs about that tradition.
Pay attention in to see how the query is resolved (a minimum of 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 Approach 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 blended by Simon Rentner. Editorial help from Hazel Cills. Our venture supervisor is Grace Chung. NPR Music’s govt producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
