Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras travel to Austin, Texas to speak with AmeriChicana musician Carrie Rodriguez about the difference between violin and fiddle, strings and "strangs," and who gets to play country music.
Songs featured:
•Carin Leon, Leon Bridges: "It Was Always You (Siempre Fuiste Tu)"
•Cuco Sanchez: "La Cama de Piedra"
•Merle Haggard: "Big City"
•Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: "San Antonio Rose"
•Robert Earl Keen: "Feelin' Good Again"
•Chip Taylor, Carrie Rodriguez: "Dirty Little Texas Story"
•Eva Garza: "Quiero Verte Una Vez Mas"
•Rick Trevino: "Doctor Time"
•Ruben Ramos: "Crying Time"
•Sammy Arriaga: "Tennessee Whiskey - Spanglish"
•The Mavericks: "There Goes My Heart"
•Louie TheSinger: "Come and Take It"
•Carrie Rodriguez: "I Dreamed I Was Lola Beltran"
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| 0:17.0 | Just a quick warning, this episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:21.0 | From NPR Music, this is Out Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm An America a Sayer. Let the Chisme begin. |
| 0:28.0 | The St. Texas. |
| 0:30.0 | D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. I'm not Felix. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a nice song. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a nice song. |
| 0:39.0 | It is a great song. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's let me let me see it. |
| 0:44.0 | You know, I had a friend who say that to me all the time. |
| 0:48.0 | Every time I sing, who sings that song? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, why don't you let them sing it? |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, that's kind of cool. |
| 0:54.2 | It's brutal. |
| 0:55.0 | It's very brutal toward me. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm sorry, I take it back. |
| 0:58.2 | I'd write, I'm listening to Beyonce any day, Felix. |
| 1:00.4 | But you know what, that's only because I've been listening to that |
| 1:03.3 | Beyonce record all weekend. Oh my God I've listened to it like 10 times already. |
| 1:07.3 | I like it for a whole bunch of reasons but I'm still trying to process everything |
| 1:10.9 | that it means and everything that's there. |
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