The New Sound of Mexico, Sung in a Nashville Accent
Tagged: Chetes, Mexico, monterrey, Nashville, TennesseePosted on: December 17th, 2006“LAST October a quiet and unassuming 26-year-old musician from Mexico arrived at Nashville International Airport to meet an American record producer he had known only through a few e-mail messages and a phone conversation. Neither had any idea what the other looked like.
The musician was Gerardo Garza, the floppy-haired, dirty-blonde It Boy of the alternative rock scene in Monterrey, Mexico, who goes by his lifelong nickname, Chetes. It’s Spanish shorthand for “cheeks”; Mr. Garza’s are noticeably pale and round. The producer was Ken Coomer, a Nashville studio whiz who played drums for the new-school Americanists Wilco and Uncle Tupelo, two bands Mr. Garza had only recently heard.”
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