Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
Santiago Jiménez Sr.'s ranchera, remade by his son as the title track of the Grammy-winning album.
Flaco Jiménez, from Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio (1986)
The writer is Santiago Jiménez Sr. The UCLA Frontera archive indexes it as a ranchera about breakup, adultery, complaint and departure, archivist tags and not the artist's words. Santiago recorded it on May 16, 1979 for Arhoolie, with Flaco on bajo sexto and vocal and Juan Viesca on string bass, produced by Chris Strachwitz, on the CD His First and Last Recordings (Arhoolie 414). Flaco's version is the 1986 title track, 2:51 on the 1990 compilation, and the Texas Cultural Trust describes the Grammy as being for a remake of his father's song. Obituary coverage cites it among his most popular songs with "El Mojado Sin Licencia" and "En el Cielo no Hay Cerveza".
Los Lobos recorded it, on their EP ...And a Time to Dance, with a live version at the 2013 Pachanga Latino Festival with the Dutch accordionist Dwayne Verheyden; the EP's year is unconfirmed. Setlist.fm shows Flaco playing it twice across 60 setlists. We found no statement from him on its meaning, no chart history or video, and cannot say which version our upload is.
Covers and versions
- Los Lobos On the EP ...And a Time to Dance; year unconfirmed.
Sources
- Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, UCLA Frontera Archive
- Flaco and Santiago Jimenez, Texas Cultural Trust
- In the spotlight: Los Lobos, Cover Me (2014-01)
- Flaco Jimenez statistics, setlist.fm