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Sistema Bomb Recharges Traditional Mexican Folk Music

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You might be familiar with the 1958 Ritchie Valens song, "La Bamba." But what you might not know is that the song comes from a very old Mexican musical genre, the Son Jarocho. And now, it's being transformed, inspired in part by a new generation of California musicians. KALW's Julie Caine paid a visit to one of them in his San Francisco studio and brings us this story.

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