When I put on a Ray Price record or a Patsy Cline record, I can see the sawdust on the floor. “The emotion through the music, I love how it makes me feel. “The first thing that I love about country music is the lyrics, the melodies,” Malo said. Tooled in part on the songs of Harlan Howard and flavors of Latin America and Buck Owens, The Mavericks initially delivered country music throughout Florida’s buzzing hive of alternative rock nightclubs. Malo, 53, formed The Mavericks in Miami in 1989. Country music was part of the soundtrack to my childhood.” I remember riding around in Miami with my dad in his big Buick, listening to Freddy Fender and Marty Robbins on 8-tracks. “I am from a Cuban family,” said Malo, by phone from his home in Nashville. On the road in acknowledgement of the band’s 30th year since formation, Malo spoke for more than an hour Monday about his beloved band and love of singing. It’s his and their first stop in Bristol. He aligns well with Patsy Cline and Ray Price among the genre’s finest.Įxperience the masterful Malo as he helms The Mavericks on Saturday up close at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tennessee. Raul Malo owns one of the most prodigious voices in country music history. Tom Netherland | Special to the Herald Courier
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