Why the Mavericks are the Bar Band of Your Dreams
Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2019
IT FELT LIKE some kind of a trick, the way the Mavericks seduced the world of country music when they came on the scene in the early 1990s. Of course, there was plenty of country influence in what the band was up to, in the way their singer Raul Malo's careening voice suggested the emotional directness of crooners like Jim Reeves and Roy Orbison, in the way they sounded like the house band in the coolest honky-tonk on the planet.
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