The 10 Best Corridos of Chalino Sánchez

Gustavo Arrellano writes about the “The 10 Best Corridos of Chalino Sánchez”:

“2017 is coming to an end, and the English-language media (besides me) has yet to write a word about the 25th anniversary of the murder of Mexican balladeer Chalino Sánchez. He’s no mere singer . . . `He’s the most influential musician in the United States of the past quarter-century—no one comes even close.’ Modern-day regional Mexican music is just one Chalinillo (Chalino imitator) after another . . . .  Yes, Chalino sang about the drug trade, but his main muse was los valientes—“the brave ones,” the wild men of rural Mexico whose exploits were immortalized in corridos . . . . He wrote hundreds of such songs, and his sparse prose backed by the hard-charging simplicity of conjunto norteño makes every Chalino tune a three-minute Western.”

KJ