Labels like Falcon Records, in the farming community of McAllen, and Rio Grande Music Company, in San Benito, the birthplace of Texas music legend Freddy Fender, put on vinyl genres that mixed ...

Zach Myers with a record from Lydia Mendoza, a music artist who would perform in the Rio Grande Valley, at a collector’s home in Brownsville, Texas. Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Puente News ...