Pleiku
1975 · Discos Joey JOEY-2016 · Cotulla, Texas
- Artist
- El Gusano
- Title
- Pleiku
- Release
- Fantasia del Barrio
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Discos Joey # JOEY-2016
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- Cotulla, Texas, USA
- Songwriter
- Eugenio Jaimez Jr.
- Genre
- Rock · Psychedelic Rock · Latin Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
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".Sources1austinchronicle.com: El gusano fantasia del barrio↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
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).
About the artist
Quartet from Cotulla, Texas, USA: Eugenio Jaimez Jr. (guitar, vocals), Sonny Ramirez (drums), Ruben Ramirez (bass), Carlos Salazar (saxophone). Jaimez was wounded in the Vietnam War and later lived in Laredo, Texas. [Source: Austin Chronicle]