Year/Genre: 1970s Regional Mexican

Matrix #: (OG Pressing)

Condition: VG++

Description: Manuel Nuñez’s El Norteño reflects the rise of norteño music, a style rooted in Northern Mexico and influenced by German and Czech polka traditions that introduced the accordion and bajo sexto into the genre. By the 1970s, norteño had become a defining regional sound, celebrated both in Mexico and among Mexican-American communities in the U.S. Records like this capture the cultural exchange between border regions and the enduring popularity of norteño as a voice of working-class life and migration.