Posts tagged La Bamba
Ritchie Valens and a White Boy from Indiana

We talked for about an hour about Chicano music and how a white kid from Indiana fell in love with it.  He just couldn’t believe I loved all this Chicano rock and mariachi.  I told him I didn’t know why I responded to it the way I did, but I just loved it.  I never saw the guy again, but that moment has stuck with me ever since.

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