Howdy Friends, I’ll be back on the WORT FM tomorrow morning from 9-noon (CST) hosting Back to the Country and the theme this week is Country Music in Español. The NFL Super Bowl is just around the corner and back in October, half-time performer (and most streamed artist of 2025) Bad Bunny went on SNL and told everyone that we had just a few months to learn Spanish. Well, in case you haven’t been keeping up with your lessons, this show is for you!
We’ll start with traditional country music songs mostly sung in English but with some Spanish words here and there. Then we’ll move on to country songs with full verses sung in both English and Spanish. From there, we’ll hear songs fully sung in Spanish, but we’ll begin with translations of songs that were first hits in English so that you grab onto the narrative quickly.
Along the way we’ll pay tribute to three of my favorite Spanish-singing country superstars who we lost in 2025: Johnny Rodriguez, Flaco Jiménez, and just last month, Raul Malo of the Mavericks (The Mavericks in Español 2xLP is so, so good!). I’ll also play some of my favorite records by Rudy Tutti Grayzell, Freddy Fender, Linda Ronstadt, Big Sandy, Tish Hinojosa, the Austin Lounge Lizards, Gerardo Meza and the Mezcal Brothers, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Cris Plata to name a few. We’ll dip into some of the absolute gems from UCLA’s massive Frontera Collection. And I’ll for sure play for you my 1963 Johnny Cash Cantado en Español EP, released only in Spain with him singing two songs in Spanish. It’ll be lots of fun and, with any luck, when it’s all over, tú puedes hablar y entender Español! ¡Escucha wortfm.org o 89.9FM en Wisconsin!
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