(Ed.'s Note: Every once in a while we are the recipients of some really fine – and rare – photos of some local luminaries. This was the case just yesterday when a fan from Bastrop associated with
the 4 Views Art Gallery at the Lost Pines Art Center sent us these prints.
This is Freddy Fender when he was Baldemar Huerta growing up in San Bene, Tejon. If anyone had told you that one day he would rise to the top of the artistic world with his songs of love and nostalgia, would you have believed it, especially from a backwater like San Benito? It's hard to believe that Freddy has been gone from us for a decade now.
That's why the Freddy Fender story appeals to so many of us in so many ways. To think that a young Mexican-American boy from an impoverished South Texas town in El Vallusco would achieve that greatness should serve as an inspiration to all of us, young and old, that greatness can be found everywhere, including inside yourself. Enjoy the photos. And to our contributor, Gracias y Saludos!)
3 comments:
Does anyone remember Jak's Midway in Harlingen, just past the Golden Spur? Freddy played there many many times. There were some wild times back in the day.
What is remember about the first introduction to Baldemar Huerta was when it was all ,the high school that he had been caught with marijuana. We all ran to the library to research what marijuana was but we still loved his "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights!" and many did that with a joint. Ha! At least he got himself out of the rut "Before the Next Tear Drops Fell!" RIP Freddy and I keep playing "Hay baby que paso, thought I was your only vato." "Who were you thinking of?" That was music a Texas Tornado style!!!!
I submitted both of these photos to Traces of Texas FB site last week. Leo Rodriguez
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