maxmox wrote: 
To say "Thank you"? RP is a *free* radio, you don't need to join in order to listen... Hmmm?

 Q-bo wrote: 
Then why'd ya join up 6 years later, hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm?

I can name this tune by the first drum beat!  Favorite band ...( in my top 5)

I know you love Calexico, Bill, but could you please please please get rid of this song? It seems to come up everytime I listen to RP. There are hundreds of great sounding Mexican bands you should take a look at, that way you get good Mexican music instead of playing stuff that sounds like a complete stereotype of something they saw in an old John Wayne Western.

By the way, I love RP! I might be one of the first and most loyal international listeners since 2000!

Outnumbered militarily and with many of its large cities occupied, Mexico could not defend itself and was also faced with internal divisions. It had little choice but to make peace on any terms. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, by American diplomat Nicholas Trist and Mexican plenipotentiary representatives Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, and Miguel Atristain, ended the war and gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.-Mexican border of the Rio Grande River, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. In return, Mexico received US $18,250,000^< ($461,725,000 today)-less than half the amount the U.S. had attempted to offer Mexico for the land before the opening of hostilities^< and the U.S. agreed to assume $3.25-million ($82,225,000 today) in debts that the Mexican government owed to U.S. citizens...

this was BEFORE...smart bombs...laser guided munitions...and tactical nuclear weapons...

amigo...

 strange_brew00 wrote: 
It's 101 today here (in Houston).Warm enough for you now?   

 juanrico wrote: 
I couldn't have said it better myself. Like a ripple in a still pond (sorry Jerry!), an injustice done in a faraway place reverberates far beyond its intended conclusion.

I'm afraid we as a nation are going to find out a lot more about this in the next few years.

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the African continent, China, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Central and South America. All places that the American Empire has trifled with people like they were animals.

And now the worm has turned. We truly live in interesting times.

Anything Calexico

 yodasan_magoo wrote: 
Words or ideas, Yodasan? The United States does not provide jobs not even for their own people... Can you see unemployment in your country? The mortgage payments crisis? The nationalization of private debt? Access to health is not guaranteed nor is free of charge, either, for its own citizens. The vast majority of Mexicans is not seeking U.S. citizenship, is seeking a job. Much of the imbalances in the world have their origin in the world's richest countries. Some U.S. Citizens think they give a lot to the world when they  actually take resources from the poorest countries of the world. U.S. structure is based on the predation of labor, natural services and poverty in southern countries. That's how the world is organized: it´s called globalization. Never heard of Lila Down or Kevin Johansen? Those are good examples of the great mixture and cultural mosaique that we are now. We are one, and we are called to change past paradigms.
Kind regards from Mexico City.
JR

 bindi wrote: 

How would that be?  Because we provide them jobs, free education, free healthcare, US citizenship...a better life?  Seems like the US does a hell of a lot to help that country.  At what point does a country need to start taking responsibility for their actions, problems, and future?

One of my favorite bands. 

 mojoman wrote: 
At one time, people depended on it flowing a little further than it does now. 

I kind of don't understand your statement - are you saying that the state of Colorado owns it because of the name, or because of it's proximity to you?   I don't think Idaho has the right to dam it (you know, theoretically) and hold it back from states downstream, or Colorado, or Utah, or Arizona . . . yet from what I have heard (this may have changed by now) it is pretty much sucked dry my the time that arroya crosses the border - tough luck Mexico, right?          Eat what, sand?

I just feel that we as a country,help make Mexico a place that makes people need to escape.

Calexico - 04 by ~photo-grafitti
Harmony Gerber  ©2010 ~photo-grafitti

Calexico
Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
12.20.2009

Love them horns! 

I need some more chips and salsa por favor

It's heard less than it used to be, but I've always liked the exico part of this band most.

i love calexico! this song makes me wish it was warmer and i was surfin near the mexican/cali border. ole!

jpfueler wrote:

Sadly true. Every year my daughter goes to Tacate, Mexico, to help build houses. The area exists in great poverty when a mere 5 miles away one finds good, middle-class housing in the San Diego area.

Can't blame it on terrain, weather, or anything else. The only difference is the form of government and the attitude of the people.

FeydBaron wrote:Mexico's problem is not the evil USA "stealing the water" that flows out of the USA into a very small portion of the Mexican nation. It is a series of governments that have plundered the nation and wastes a very rich nation's resources. Mexico has absolutely no reason for it's largest industries and exports to be people forced to leave so they can send Dollars home and illicit drugs.
Correctly run (with a bit of help in the attitudes of the people as well) Mexico could be a damn rich nation that wouldn't have to Fence it's southern border to help prevent competition to it's citizens trying to sneak over the northern border.
Notice how we are Evil for wanting a border fence yet Mexico has made damn sure it has one on it's own souther border.

mojoman wrote:

I think his point is that courtesy of cities like Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, and San Diego as well as agricultural areas using canals to divert water from the Colorado River, it no longer flows to an ocean outlet in Mexico like it historically has (the Gulf of California in this case). And because the Colorado river has a significant number of dams, even the worst floods aren't likely get the water much past Yuma.

Besides, the most popular tourist destination on the Colorado river isn't even in the state of the same name.

Now we are are talking, after Jesse Cook - Red this is like heaven!
Oscar

"I think I'm in love". "Here leezard, leezard".

Its amazing how people rave about this music and then trash Santana. Both musicians are great on their own merits.

¡Calexico es de puta madre!

Man alive, what a great set. Kottke, Landreth, Calexico. Keep it coming Bill.

mocowbell wrote:

Mmmmm... tamales...

I thought I'd heard about every version of this tune but this slower studio track surprised me. Those two trumpets and the pedal steel capture the feeling of the southwest such that I can almost smell the tamales. These guys are awesome live.

Gnarlito wrote:

Huh? You think the Colorado rises somewhere else--Idaho, maybe?