¡que viva méxico!

Los Lobos - La Guacamaya



Lila Downs - La Cumbia del Mole



* Photo by iceman9294

homenaje

Buika & Chucho Valdés - Las Simples Cosas



* Photo by vansalaman

hermosa, primorosa

Toña La Negra - Lamento Cubano



*Photo by Jim Skea

sinaloa

El Banda Limon - Mazatlan



* Photo by ilhuicamina

soñoliento

Magos Herrera - Drume Negrita




* Photo by jencampbell11

shake away

Lila Downs (with La Mari) - Ojo de Culebra




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* Photo by borya

jarocho

Grupo Chicontepec - La Bamba



* Photo by Mario Sepülveda

son de oaxaca

Dueto de Tinito y Porfirio - La Petroña



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* Image by Robert Sturman

flores mexicanas

Los Folkloristas - Rosa de Castilla

corrido irlandés

Susan McKeown with Mariachi Grande Real de Mexico - Eggs in her Basket



* Photo by Yar Matey

mi pobre corazón

Los Tres Diamantes - Perdón



* Photo by mashita

la raza y la musica

Three sound collages from the Latin Playboys

Viva La Raza



Gone



Crayon Sun

oaxaca

Lila Downs - La Cumbia del Mole

reina

Lydia Mendoza - Aunque Me Odies

veracruz

One of Mexico's greatest pop singers, Toña La Negra, performing El Cacahuatero

ternura

I'm reading Sandra Cisneros' novel Caramelo, and am enjoying her judicious and expressive quotes from Mexican popular song lyrics. Lila Downs' version of a Mexican classic, Naila, seemed like the right thing to post this evening.



* Photo by Alfredo Jiménez