Speaker 1: Hey, y'all. I'm JB. Southseva, a writer at Texas Monthly
Speaker 1: and host of Texas Country Reporter. I'm also hosting Texas
Speaker 1: Monthly's latest podcast, Viva Dejano, the story of Teano music
Speaker 1: told by the people who lived it and have been
Speaker 1: shaped by it. I've gotten to talk with some amazing
Speaker 1: artists for the show, and I'm excited to share those
Speaker 1: conversations with you. This is a personal story for me,
Speaker 1: the nostalgic sound in my childhood, but also a sound
Speaker 1: I hear today in places where I least expect it.
Speaker 1: Here's the trailer that Texas tornadoes.
Speaker 2: You got it, so take it away about it.
Speaker 1: Every Sunday morning, when I was a kid and my
Speaker 1: family and I had a ritual after we got home
Speaker 1: from Sunday mass My mom would get started cooking chodis
Speaker 1: and eggs or Barbara CoA we picked up on the
Speaker 1: way home, and my siblings and I would change out
Speaker 1: of our church clothes and turn on the TV. If
Speaker 1: we made it in time, we'd hear that whirling electric
Speaker 1: keyboard and those frantic horns. This was the golden age
Speaker 1: of Tejano music, a rich mashup of styles Conjunto, Borgesta, Northeno, Cumbia,
Speaker 1: all with their own histories in Texas, Mexico and beyond.
Speaker 1: We were one of millions of households who tuned into
Speaker 1: the Johnny Canalis Show to watch our favorite bands and
Speaker 1: discover new ones. The show is long gone and Johnny
Speaker 1: passed away earlier this year, but the Hana music lives
Speaker 1: on and today artists like Besso Pluma and Grupo Fronterra
Speaker 1: dominate the airwaves on the new text this monthly podcast
Speaker 1: Viva Tejano. Well, It's sport the Hanno music past and present,
Speaker 1: with help from Texans whose lives have been shaped by
Speaker 1: the music and for whom it became an obsession.
Speaker 2: Sunday to the church after church about Lakoa and then
Speaker 2: music Canalis.
Speaker 1: My dad and I used to go on tour. We'd
Speaker 1: stop in every single town, every small town, big city,
Speaker 1: and there was always ady Hano radio station and every
Speaker 1: all we had to do is look for the antenna.
Speaker 3: My mom was the one who taught me, like, yo,
Speaker 3: you gotta play this, you gotta play this. This is
Speaker 3: the kind of music people like, like, play this song
Speaker 3: when you got to dance.
Speaker 2: For going sometimes I cried because my dad said, I
Speaker 2: want you to connect with the people and not be
Speaker 2: afraid to play.
Speaker 1: It's part nostalgia, part exploration of our unique d Hano culture.
Speaker 2: There's different genres cal junto to Hanno. They call it
Speaker 2: to Hanno. I call it text mix to Hano.
Speaker 3: As a genre, it's very broad.
Speaker 2: That could be Stevie Ravob. You know.
Speaker 1: I girl and coma feels like homegirls, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: They see us, they see our image. We're not these
Speaker 2: Barbie cut girls.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We are who we are. We're from Texas and we
Speaker 2: were proud of that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get hated on for this, but we went
Speaker 3: over to Miami and we experienced a lot of races
Speaker 3: from other Latin cultures.
Speaker 1: Was it hard being a female accordion player?
Speaker 2: You better believe it. My goal is to someday leave
Speaker 2: the younger kids carrying on the tradition.
Speaker 3: It's like, bro, we're all the same, you know, Like,
Speaker 3: no matter what culture you are, we all do the
Speaker 3: same stuff. We all hang out in our garage and
Speaker 3: we drink beer and do barbecue and we just sing
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: This is Viva Tehuana, a podcast about the Junta. Music
Speaker 1: told by the people who make it and live it
Speaker 1: coming November twelfth. And are you and Nina the Mexican races?
Speaker 1: I mean, we declare we are the Mexican No