Bridging the worlds of indie rock and sprawling Americana roots music,
Calexico's portraits of southern border towns and warm, culture-melding grooves
have won a heap of critical acclaim and made them a hugely respected force in
the alternative country and US folk scenes since first emerging in the
mid-1990s.
Naming the band after a small Californian town on the Mexican border, front man
Joey Burns previously toured as a bassist with drummer John Convertino in
folk-rock outfit Giant Sand before the pair relocated to Arizona to play as
Friends of Dean Martinez. This later evo...