Latest Release
- MAR 1, 2024
- 14 Songs
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Freddy Fender · 2001
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls · 1974
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls · 1975
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Freddy Fender · 2001
- Greatest Hits · 1995
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls · 1974
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Freddy Fender · 1974
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Freddy Fender · 1986
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls · 1974
- The Number 1 Country Collection: 16 Number One Country Favourites · 2002
Essential Albums
- The quiver in Freddy Fender's voice could make even the most hardened rancher cry in his cab. On "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," the Texas country singer works up the strength to forgive an ex-lover; then, in "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," he regrets all the hours he spent thinking about her in the first place. Though at times he sounds like he’s on the brink of tears, his spirits rise on funk and tejano jams that fill out the rest of this LP.
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About Freddy Fender
A beloved figure in the annals of musical Americana and one of the first Mexican-Americans to crack the country charts, Freddy Fender scored a huge hit in 1959 with the classic "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." Legal troubles sidelined Fender until the early 1970s when he reemerged as a chart force offering a smooth blend of American roots music that incorporated country, blues, Cajun music, and Mexican border sounds. In the early 1990s Fender, along with Lone Star music legends Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, and Flaco Jimenez, formed the Tex-Mex supergroup the Texas Tornados. The group released several albums together, and Fender continued to perform solo until his death in 2006.
- HOMETOWN
- San Benito, TX, United States
- BORN
- June 4, 1937
- GENRE
- Country