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TM Audio Exclusive: Little Joe on Chasing Dark Clouds Away Through Song
For the season’s final episode of Viva Tejano, we welcomed Little Joe to the Texas Monthly studio. A legend of Texas music, he’s been performing since the fifties and is still playing to sold-out crowds. His career has spanned orquesta and Chicano soul, the “Chicano wave” of the seventies, the “golden age” of the eighties and nineties, and the resurgence of música mexicana today. He’s a longtime advocate for Mexican American civil rights, not only in Texas but also in California and across the Southwest. And for all his influence on the evolution of tejano, he’s clear that what he makes is better called Chicano music.We spoke just a few months after the passing of his wife, Criselida Cantu Hernandez—the “First Lady of La Familia”—and…The post TM Audio Exclusive: Little Joe on Chasing Dark Clouds Away Through Song appeared first on Texas Monthly.