Biography:
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona based, Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock, band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their 2005 EP In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi, conjunto, cumbia, tejano, as well as country, jazz, and post-rock.
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Other songs:
- Across The Wire
- All Systems Red
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- Bisbee Blue
- Cruel
- Epic
- Falling From The Sky
- Father Mountain
- Frank's Tavern
- Maybe On Monday
- Splitter
- Algiers
- Alone Again Or
- Ballad Of Cable Hogue
- Bend To The Road
- Beneath The City Of Dreams
- Better And Better
- Black Heart
- Bridge To Nowhere
- Bullets And Rocks
- Corona
- Crooked Road And The Briar
- Dead In The Water
- Edge Of The Sun
- End Of The World With You
- Feast Of Wire
- Flores Y Tamales
- Follow The River
- Fortune Teller
- Fractured Air
- Franks Tavern
- Garden Ruin
- Gift X Change
- Gilbert
- Green Grows The Holly
- Half A Smidge
- House Of Valparaiso
- Hush
- Landing Field
- Lost In Space
- Low Expectations
- Man Made Lake
- Miles From The Sea
- Missing
- Moon Never Rises
- Music Box
- Nom De Plume
- Not Even Stevie Nicks
- One More Cup Of Coffee
- Panic Open String
- Para
- Puerto
- Quattro World Drifts In
- Red Blooms
- Removed
- Roka
- Service And Repair
- Si Tu Disais
- Slowness
- Spokes
- Sunken Waltz
- Tapping On The Line
- The News About William
- The Ride Part Ii
- The Town And Miss Lorraine
- The Vanishing Mind
- Two Silver Trees
- Victor Jaras Hands
- Voices In The Field
- When The Angels Played
- Windjammer
- Woven Birds
- Writers Minor Holiday
- Yours And Mine
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