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FREDDY FENDER DIED?!?!? Shit, man, I was raised on his music too. I used to hear him play with Doug Sahm. Lotsa dancing (and more than a few fights) in those joints. I think that was when I first started to seriously learn Spanish 'coz FF used to sing a lot in Spanish. "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" is one of my all time favorites.
What I liked about him was the lack of bitterness on his part. You know they threw him in jail--not just "jail" but ANGOLA, which is near where I was raised--for "possession of marijuana"--more like a few joints or something for like THREE YEARS! And those hicks were always calling him every kind of name imaginable--the prejudice against Mexicans was even worse then. And Freddy never let bitterness eat at him or cut his spirit.
Well, damn. Son of a BITCH!!! I guess I should say "thanks for breaking this news" because I'd want to know that, but this really bums me out, Griff...
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