RIP Bobby Espinosa (of LA group El Chicano)
Saw this over at Soulsides. Bit late, but here it is...
Felix Contreras has a great memorial piece up at NPR about him.
Here's a 2009 interview with him by Jesus Velo of Los Illegals.
I first came across El Chicano when I found their first album Viva Tirado in Real Groovy. I picked it up cos the music was cool jazzy East LA 70s funk, and cos the liners notes were fantastic, including mentioning such important details as "The album was recorded afterhours in the lounge of the Kabuki Sukiyaki Restaurant, 3840 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, because that is what El Chicano wanted and because Moss is too good to be true". And one of the engineers was a Kiwi. The album has some great covers too, like Canteloupe Island, and a dynamite version of the Doors - Light my fire, which is 25 seconds long.
El Chicano - Viva Tirado live, 1971.
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