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The Border Blasters are a Texas-based roots group composed of primary band members Todd Jagger and Jimmy Ray Harrell. The band calls their sound "Cowboy Swing & Hillbilly Blues" with Jagger on mandolin, guitar & vocals; and Harrell on guitar, piano, accordion & vocals. They are often joined by other musicians.
San Diego Jewish Men's Choir; San Diego Men's Chorus; San Diego Symphony; The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers; Sever Your Ties; The Shambles (band) The Silent Comedy; Skelpin; Sleeping People; Slightly Stoopid; The Soft Pack; Some Girls (California band) Something Like Silas; Soul-Junk; Souljahz; Sprung Monkey; Steam Powered Giraffe; Stick Figure ...
The band recorded their biggest-selling album, Call of the West, in 1982. A single, "Mexican Radio," about border blaster radio stations, became an international hit, peaking at #18 in Canada, #21 in New Zealand and #33 in Australia. [6] It also reached #64 in the UK, [7] and was their only Top 100 hit in the United States.
A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM stations whose broadcast areas cover large parts of the United States, and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada.
The station boasted "50,000 watts of Boss Soul Power". That station continues to broadcast under the call sign XEPRS-AM. XERB also had an office in the rear of a small strip mall on Third Avenue in Chula Vista, California just 10 minutes from the Tijuana–San Diego border crossing. The Wolfman was rumored to actually broadcast from this ...
B-Side Players is an American band formed in 1994. The band incorporates the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with the funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms of their homeland. The band also drops a bit of Cumbia, gritty street Samba, Son Montuno and Jarocho into the mix. Described as War meets Lenny Kravitz by way of Ben Harper, the ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Over five years, the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border developed a well-oiled system to shelter asylum-seekers. That system is being tested like never before as U.S ...
Earthless performed at the thirteenth Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands on April 18, 2008. [10] They were originally only scheduled to play to 250 people in the smallest room of the event as the main act, but were invited at the last minute to perform as the last act on the main stage to 2000 concertgoers instead, [4] as the scheduled band Isis had only performed for half of their two ...