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From the full length album Vaquero (2025) on RodeoCorp, Ltd. First of three singles. Still to come is the single is the heartfelt "Broken Promises" to be released August 14th and the dark "Murdered in the Streets slated for September 12th.

Amaker revels in cross-cultural jubilation on Vaquero (out Sept. 12 via Rodeo Corp Ltd), a freewheeling new album that fuses his Western performance art with authentic Mariachi backing. The record was recorded last year across several trips to Mexico City. The jovial horns that accentuate “Tequila Cerveza”—paired with hoots, hollers, and rousing cries of “Tequila!” from Amaker’s hired-gun backing band—set the tone bright and early: This is music that crosses borders both literal and genre.

Named after the Mexican term for cowboy (which is to say the original cowboy, dating back to the 1500s), Vaquero came as a result of Amaker’s long-running friendships with Mexican musicians, who periodically stay at his home when they tour in Seattle. One day, his friend Miguel Servin, a veteran of Mexico City’s vibrant music community who owns a studio of his own, suggested that Amaker come down and make a Rodeo record there. The songwriter pondered the idea and had just one condition.
“If I’m gonna record a record in Mexico City, it’s gotta be a Mexican record,” Amaker remembers saying. “Can you get me Mariachi?” Servin responded, “Hell yeah, I can get you Mariachi!” True to his word, Servin recruited a band in the most old-school possible fashion: by visiting Plaza Garibaldi, a hole-in-the-wall bar where Mariachi groups perform and go from table to table, handing out business cards and looking for gigs. (The lo-fi slice-of-life video for “You’re No Good,” shot and directed by Servin’s wife, Jasmina Hirschl, captures some of this process.) “We would watch each band go by and try to listen to them for technical ability,” Amaker recalls. “I don’t have as good an ear as Miguel does. I’d be like, ‘Hey, I like that one, good energy!’ He’d say, ‘Yeah, but they’re not as in tune as this group over here.’ We finally found the one. They were really well-prepared. It was pretty amazing—these are classically trained musicians even though the Mariachi sound is kinda sloppy, you know? It’s almost sometimes intentionally out of tune. ”The recording process proved fruitful, rowdy, and fun as hell.

video by Sean Downey