Music Club’s sublicensing of Huey Meaux’s Crazy Cajun catalog from the UK’s Demon/Edsel Records continues with these two releases, which join Sonny Landreth’s Prodigal Son and Ronnie Milsap’s Wish You ...

Has there ever been a more Houston-sounding music than that of Freddy Fender? Think about it. Songs like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" were pan-Gulf Coastal ...

SAN ANTONIO – Music by Selena, Freddy Fender, Vicente Fernández, Gloria Estefan, Linda Ronstadt, and others are on the list of songs, sounds, and albums by Latino voices that have been nominated by a ...

The original Broadway recording of “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vicente Fernández’s enduring ranchera song “El Rey” and Freddy Fender’s breakthrough song “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” have ...

This clip is a shout-out to Freddy Fender, who died yesterday of lung cancer. A Texas legend, Freddy packed a lot of road into sixty-nine years — a Tex-Mex journeyman in the Fifties, stabbed in the ...

This No. 1 hit for Freddy Fender is a unique entry on the Top 100 Country Songs list, as it's the only one that's bilingual. Fender was far from the first to record it, but audiences loved the way he ...

Baldemar Huerta made a career of reinvention. As Freddy Fender, he became a pioneering Hispanic pop and country star. Fender died of lung cancer on Saturday at his home in Corpus Christi at age 69.

Tejano swamp-popper Freddy Fender passed away on October 14, 2006. Freddy Fender, the Tejano rocker behind classics like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," passed ...

Freddy Fender, a Grammy-winning musician who was one of the first Mexican American artists to successfully cross over to the mainstream pop market and who helped introduce Tex-Mex music to a wider ...

Playing gringo music for gringos in the 1950s just didn't go well with a name like Baldemar Huerta, so along came "Freddy Fender." "I got Fender off the guitar, and Freddy was a catchy name," he ...

The kid could play, but it was the voice that got you, not the guitar. He could bend it as if his throat were a saxophone, a sweet warble one note, a deep bellow the next. Born Baldemar Huerta in San ...