Saturday, October 14, 2006

R.I.P. FREDDY FENDER


The Mayor of Milagro is dead.

Baldemar Huerta, better known as Freddy Fender, died of lung cancer in his home in San Antonio. You can read the Associated Press story HERE .

The photo here is a snapshot I took at a Texas Tornados show at the Hole in the Wall at South by Southwest in 1996. Both Freddy and Doug Sahm are gone now.

The next teardrop just fell.

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