Road trip music

Music for a Hispanic heritage road trip to the southwest: while there is a great deal of fine Mexican and Mexican American music to be heard. my one choice for you is Tish Hinojosa. Take a listen:

The border lands between the southwestern United States and northern Mexico are places where cultures of several sorts intersect, and where’s there long history of political, social, and cultural change on both side of the border. Those things find their expression in music as well.

History and culture play into the celebration of Hispnaic Heritage, be that at Hispanic Heritage Month or at other times of year, for a specific time or for any time that strikes you. C Culture Swing is perhaps Hinojosa’s most well known album, but there are more than a dozen others to enjoy, music which illuminates her experiences as is as a first generation Mexican American in the southwest and in other parts of the world.

Aquella Noche, which is an all Spanish album, is a fine choice, as Homeland, with songs which speak of cowboys, border crossings, and growing up on the west side of town in San Antonio. Dreaming from the Labyrith offers a mystical take on the voyages of explorers, on thoughts during a rainstorm, and on journey on God’s own open road. Our Little Planet finds her continuing to draw these threads of life and culture together with an artist's gift for idea, word, and melody, as does at this writing her most recent recording: With a Guitar and a Pen.

You may also wish to see
Tish Hinojosa: Our Little Planet
Ian Tyson: Yellowhead to Yellowstone
road trip music: New Mexico
rTish Hinojosa's web site

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