TM Audio subscribers have access to this episode one week early. Visit our FAQ page to learn how to link your subscription to your podcast app. Max Baca, this week’s guest on Viva Tejano, is a true standard-bearer in tejano music. He was just seven years old when he started playing onstage with his dad’s conjunto band. He went on to play in the Texas Tornados, where he replaced his idol, Oscar Tellez, on the bajo sexto and later founded the Grammy Award–winning band Los Texmaniacs.Max is also an expert on the history of the music, and in this episode, he’ll share the fascinating origins of conjunto, from South Texas and Mexico, as well as Indigenous communities in New Mexico and Arizona. And he’ll also tell the…
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