Hear Bruce Springsteen's Lost Nineties Mariachi Song ‘Adelita'
The newest song drop is 'Adelita' from Inyo, an album he originally envisioned as a follow-up to 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. It's a tribute to female Soldadera soldiers of the Mexican Revolution that Springsteen created with a group of mariachi musicians (Luis Villalobos, Alberto Villalobos, Angel Ramos, Humberto Manuel Flores Gutierrez, David Glukh, Jorge Espinosa, Miguel Ponce) who play on several Inyo tracks.
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'Inyo was a record I wrote in California during long drives along the California aqueduct, up through Inyo County on my way to Yosemite or Death Valley,' Springsteen says in a press release. 'I was enjoying that kind of writing so much. [On 'The Ghost Of Tom Joad' tour] I would go home to the hotel room at night and continue to write in that style because I thought I was going to follow up The Ghost of Tom Joad with a similar record, but I didn't. That's where Inyo came from. It's one of my favorites.'
Much like The Ghost of Tom Joad, several songs on Inyo were inspired by the impact of border crossings on families in Mexico and the United States. 'There was constant border reporting in the Los Angeles Times,' Springsteen says in a statement, 'so it was a big part of your life.'
At the moment, Bruce Springsteen is in the middle of a European tour with the E Street Band. It's a politically-charged show where Springsteen speaks candidly about the political situation back home in the States.
'In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,' Springsteen told the crowd on opening night. 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.'
Predictably, this sparked a series of angry Truth Social posts by President Trump. 'Springsteen is 'dumb as a rock,'' Trump wrote, 'and couldn't see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just 'standard fare.' Then we'll all see how it goes for him!'
Springsteen responded to the veiled threat by releasing his speech in full on the six-track digital EP Land of Hope and Dreams.
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