"Pioneered by artists from San Antonio, Texas like The Royal Jesters and Sunny & the Sunliners, 'Chicano Soul' refers to a specific fusion of mid-century Mexican-American and Black musical cultures. The music found an enthusiastic audience among Latino communities and sock-hopping youth throughout the southwestern United States. Over the course of the ‘60s, in places like El Paso, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and L.A., a growing crop of new bands gave the movement regional flavor, bookended by the conjunto-inflected deep soul of the San Antonio bands on one side, and the R&B- and jazz-heavier 'Eastside' L.A. sound on the other. These artists established a vital, DIY musical subculture that would pave the way for the Chicano cultural movement of the ’70s. ..." Bandcamp (Audio)
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