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Artist El Gusano
Release Fantasia del Barrio
Year 1975
Label Discos Joey # JOEY-2016
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language Instrumental
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — El Gusano, Fantasia del Barrio; cite each song by its SongID

Fantasia del Barrio

1975 · Album · Discos Joey # JOEY-2016 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Vet.
Annotation
Psychedelic rock Mexican-American group founded in Texas, said to have recorded this album in one 10-hour session in San Antonio, TX, featuring Eugenio Jaimez, Sonny Ramirez, Ruben Ramirez, and Carlos Salazar. Lead singer Eugenio Jaimez, from Cotulla, TX, where President Lyndon B. Johnson once taught at the Welhausen Mexican School, was wounded in the Vietnam War. Now living in Loredo, Texas, he described the album as a: "remembrance of a hellish war that many of our brothers met with by chance".1 The album started with describing his agricultural background with "Work Your Hand to the Bone", on to serving in the Vietnam War with the track "Pleiku" , and then returning to the US with "Going Home" .
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collection
Songs from this release appear in this curated collection.
The songs
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1975 · Album · Discos Joey # JOEY-2016 · Cotulla, Texas · Fantasia del Barrio

Discos Joey JOEY-2016, track A3; recorded in one session at Zaz Recording Studio, San Antonio; all tracks written and arranged by Eugenio Jaimez Jr. Reissued by Heavy Light Records, Austin (HLR-LP002, 2010).

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1975 · Album · Discos Joey # JOEY-2016 · Cotulla, Texas · Fantasia del Barrio

Discos Joey JOEY-2016, track B3; written and arranged by Eugenio Jaimez Jr. Reissued by Heavy Light Records, Austin (HLR-LP002, 2010).