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Viva Mexico, Morrissey and Easter Weekend!

Cerys plays Easter-themed tunes and finds out about La Linea, a festival celebrating Latin music, which has a particular focus on Mexico and Morrissey in 2015.

Cerys plays Easter-themed tunes and finds out more about La Linea, a festival celebrating Latin Music which, in its fifteenth year, has a particular focus on Mexico...and Morrissey!

She chats to festival director Andy Wood, who explains that, in Mexico, Morrissey's songs of love, loss and longing, reach a big audience and have chimed with generations raised on rancheras and mariachis.

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Sun 5 Apr 201510:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Long John Baldry

    Mexico

    • Mexico / Let The Heartaches Begin.
    • PRT Records.
    • 1.

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Ain't No Grave Hold My Body Down

    • Essential Early Recordings.
    • Primo.
    • 37.

  • Jorge Drexler

    Todo Cae

    • Bailer En La Cueva.
    • Warner Music Spain.
    • 6.

  • Morgan Szymanski

    La Zona Del Silencio (Durango)

    • Sketches of Mexico.
    • Sarabande Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Pharis & Jason Romero

    Backstep Indie

    • A Wanderer I'll Stay.
    • Lula Records.
    • 6.

  • The Flying Burrito Brothers

    Lazy Days

    • Sin City - The Very Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers.
    • A&M Records.
    • 13.

  • Cora Mae Bryant

    Born To Die

    • Music Maker: Sisters Of The South.
    • Dixiefrog.
    • 2.

  • Ngoni ba

    Bassekouni

    • Ba Power.
    • Glitterbeat Records.
    • 9.

  • Los Hermanos Záizar

    Dos Hojas Sin Rumbo

    • Serie De Coleccion.
    • Peerless.
    • 7.

  • Kyle Eastwood

    Peace Of Silver

    • Time Pieces.
    • Jazz Village.
    • 6.

  • Rodriguez

    Inner City Blues

    • Cold Fact.
    • LEGACY RECORDIN.
    • 7.

  • Lead Belly

    Grasshoppers In My Pillow

    • Huddie Ledbetter's Best.
    • BGO.
    • 2.

  • The Charlatans

    In the Tall Grass

    • Modern Nature.
    • BMG.
    • 5.

  • Howlin’ Wolf

    Killing Floor

    • Chess Originals.
    • Chess.
    • 4.

  • Santana

    Gitano

    • Amigos.
    • CBS.
    • 4.

  • The Champs

    Tequila

    • The Backbeat Of Rock And Roll.
    • Famous Flames.
    • 4.

  • Mexrrissey

    Ask

    • Mexico Goes Morrissey.

  • Calexico & Roger McGuinn

    One More Cup of Coffee

    • I'm Not There (Original Soundtrack).
    • Sony Music, Columbia, Sony Music Soundtrax.
    • 11.

  • Jorge Drexler

    La luna de Rasquí

    • Bailar en la cueva.
    • Warner Music Spain.
    • 4.

  • Danny Amis & Twin Tones

    Double Indemnity

    • Super Spy & Western Tones.
    • T-VOH Records.
    • 1.

  • Lydia Mendoza y familia

    Mexico en una Laguna

    • Hot Women - Women Singers from the Torrid Regions of the World.
    • Kein & Aber Records.
    • 2.

  • Cornershop

    Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal

    • Hold On It's Easy.
    • Ample Play.
    • 6.

  • Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers

    Born To Lose

    • Mojo Presents The Roots Of The Sex Pistols.
    • Mojo Magazine.
    • 4.

  • George Benson

    Give Me the Night

  • Big Audio Dynamite Ii

    Rush

    • (single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Kae Tempest

    The Beigeness

    • Everybody Down.
    • Ninja Tune.
    • 4.

  • John Carpenter

    Vortex

    • Lost Themes.
    • Sacred Bones.
    • 001.

  • Romare

    Work Song

    • Projections.
    • Ninja Tune.
    • 2.

  • Matt Monro & The John Barry Orchestra

    Born Free

    • The Best Of John Barry: Themeology.
    • Columbia.

  • Antonio Aguilar

    Valente Quintero

    • Juan Charrasqueado.
    • Unknown.
    • 5.

  • Martha Bass

    Since I've Been Born Again

    • Soul Gospel Vol. 2.
    • Soul Jazz Records.
    • 3.

  • David Wax Museum

    Si Te Vas

    • Everything Is Saved.
    • Not On Label.
    • 7.

  • Carl Hall

    Mean It Baby

    • Northern Soul - 75 Original Classic Tracks.
    • Rhino.
    • 22.

  • Billy Preston

    How Long Has The Train Been Gone

    • Everybody Likes Some Kind Of Music.
    • A&M Records.
    • 3.

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • !!!

    All U Writers

  • Ashton, Gardner & Dyke

    Resurrection Shuffle

    • Mastermix Issue #209 - promotional.
    • Deep Purple.
    • 1.

  • O.V. Wright

    I Was Born All Over

    • O.V. Wright Giant Of Southern Soul.
    • MCA Records.
    • 14.

  • Sinkane

    Young Trouble

    • City Slang Records.

  • Louis Armstrong

    La Cucaracha

  • The Stone Roses

    I Am the Resurrection

    • Columbia.

  • The Clash

    Armagideon Time

    • Hits Back.
    • SME.
    • 2.

  • Arthur Conley

    Funky Street

    • Soul Directions.
    • Atlantic.
    • 2.

  • Ian Brown

    El Mundo Pequeno

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Polydor.
    • 8.

  • Chic

    I'll Be There (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • Warner Bros Records.

  • Mott the Hoople

    Roll Away The Stone

    • Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

  • Coros de Niños de España y México

    México en la Piel

    • México Flamenco.
    • Bucono Music.
    • 14.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Apr 201510:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music