​Peter Rowan (from album Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce

​Peter Rowan (from album Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce

​Peter Rowan (from album Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
 
Progressive Bluegrass legend Peter Rowan returns with a new album, Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce. The album title refers to the story in the track “Free Mexican Airforce”, a track written by Peter Rowan, and on the Flaco Jimenez 1988 album Flaco’s Amigos. Flaco Jimenez guests on the recent release as well as Max Baca, with Ray Wylie Hubbard lending vocals for “I’m Gonna Love You Like There’s No Tomorrow”. Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce celebrates the music of the Southwest; border songs that capture the sound of cantina’s, Texas honky tonks, and backyard parties.
 
Peter Rowan began playing in Tex-Mex and Folk bands while in high school, joining Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys in 1964. He joined Dave Grisman in the progressive Folk Rock band Earth Opera in 1967, moving to San Francisco and joining Seatrain, a Bluegrass/Rock band for two albums. He left to form Old and in the Way with Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman before joining with his brothers, Chris and Lorin, in the progressive Bluegrass outfit, The Rowan Brothers. Performing as a solo act since the 1980’s, Peter Rowan forged a path for Indie music as he expanded on the borders of Bluegrass music.
 
He introduces Moonshine Sally on a trip through “Alligator Alley” as Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce spins a reel for a sympathetic border guard in “Mississippi California” and rides a low rumble up the 101 towards Mendocino with “Sunset Eyes”. Traditional Tex-Mex sounds can be heard throughout the album in “Cancion Mixteca”, “Bonita Senorita”, and “Maria Elena” as Peter Rowan updates the genre without diminishing its natural joy with “Valentina” and “Un Beso”. “Free Mexican Air Force” relates a story of the sky as Peter Rowan tells a tale of refugees in “Oh Liberty” and takes a walk through after-dark San Antonio with “Moonlight Midnight”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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