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Freddy Fender's Easter: Vaya Con Dios Y'All

Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 3 June 1976

SAN BENITO, Texas — With all the baby kissing, long-winded speechmaking and high school cheerleading, not to mention the Jimmy Carter Spanish-language leaflets flapping in the hot breeze, "Freddy Fender Weekend," held here April 17th and 18th, looked like the beginning of a political campaign.

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