Has there ever been a more Houston-sounding music than that of Freddy Fender? Think about it. Songs like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" were pan-Gulf Coastal ...

Music Club’s sublicensing of Huey Meaux’s Crazy Cajun catalog from the UK’s Demon/Edsel Records continues with these two releases, which join Sonny Landreth’s Prodigal Son and Ronnie Milsap’s Wish You ...

Freddy Fender, a Grammy-winning musician who was one of the first Mexican American artists to successfully cross over to the mainstream pop market and who helped introduce Tex-Mex music to a wider ...

Country newcomer Frank Ray sings Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" like he's living it during this Taste of Country acoustic pop-up video. The "Country'd Look Good on You" singer ...

Freddy Fender is at the center of an effort to get more Latino representation in the Country Music Hall of Fame. The "Wasted Days, Wasted Nights" and "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" singer from San ...

The kid could play, but it was the voice that got you, not the guitar. He could bend it as if his throat were a saxophone, a sweet warble one note, a deep bellow the next. Born Baldemar Huerta in San ...

This clip is a shout-out to Freddy Fender, who died yesterday of lung cancer. A Texas legend, Freddy packed a lot of road into sixty-nine years — a Tex-Mex journeyman in the Fifties, stabbed in the ...

A South Texas singer has petitioned for country singer-songwriter Freddy Fender's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Veronique Medrano, a Tejano country solo artist, launched the petition ...

Playing gringo music for gringos in the 1950s just didn't go well with a name like Baldemar Huerta, so along came "Freddy Fender." "I got Fender off the guitar, and Freddy was a catchy name," he ...

Apr. 9—SAN BENITO — Capping years of work, the San Benito Historical Society is placing a state historical marker at hometown hero Freddy Fender's family home, honoring the Grammy Award-winning singer ...

Freddy Fender, a Grammy-winning musician who was one of the first Mexican American artists to successfully cross over to the mainstream pop market and who helped introduce Tex-Mex music to a wider ...