Mexican Border Ballads | Double Play: "Candelaria" + "Ghost of the Rio Grande" | Radio Drifter

Two songs from the border country, played back to back the way the river runs — one after the other and no way to stop it. SIDE A — "Candelaria": They tore down the footbridge between two river villages, but she keeps one candle burning in the window on the far bank. He knows what the river does in the fall. A galloping borderland ballad about a light nobody can reach — yet. SIDE B — "Ghost of the Rio Grande": They say he robbed the railroad and gave it to the villages. They say a hundred men couldn't catch him. They found his horse one morning, standing where the river ran. They never found the man. Spanish guitar, weeping pedal steel, upright bass, and a baritone that's seen some things — recorded warm, the way the old records breathed. Radio Drifter — comin' to you on a frequency the government swears don't exist. #countrymusic #outlawcountry #westernmusic #borderballad #spanishguitar #americana #countryballad #storysong #marty­robbins #originalcountry #mexicanborder #westernballad