Here are a couple of fan recorded videos of murdered Narcocorrido star Valentin Elizalde ,“El Gallo de Oro” and band doing some radio promotion events. I think these clips show the raw power of this music far better than the studio recordings. To see this stuff live is an amazing experience. I absolutely love the wild drumming and the way it’s used to punctuate phrases.  And of course, in fine folk music tradition, the songs are almost entirely tales of drug dealing and murder. Indeed Elizalde was murdered gangland style in 2006 just after playing a show. It’s a heavy world these guys move in !