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Freddy Trujillo is a singer/songwriter and bassist who hails from Simi Valley, CA. He grew up in a highly musical family-- Fred Sr. sang and played guitar in various groups, including The Beethovens, an all-Chicano beat combo who gigged all over the southland during the great garage-rock boom of the mid-1960s. Sister A'me Loraine scored two top-ten dance hits in the early 90's. Freddy himself played with Pat Smear (Nirvana, Germs) and many other local L.A. acts during the explosion of punk/alternative music that hit L.A. in the '80's/'90s. Freddy soon relocated to Portland, Oregon, and released his acclaimed debut solo record Hawks & Highways, which dealt with the intertwining of Native American and Chicano experiences in rock & roll form. He has since been a sought-after player on the ever-burgeoning Portland scene playing with anyone from Curtis Salgado to Fernando. Besides his own solo band with three records under his belt, Freddy has also been a full-time member of The Delines, which is the latest project by novelist Willy Vlautin. Freddy’s latest 2022 release is “Sketch of a Man”. Poetic memoir, melody and grooves shimmy and shine on this 10-track album, recorded in one, hot week with longtime collaborator and celebrated producer Luther Russell in L.A. The album is an eclectic musical stew with lyrical themes exploring his Chicano roots and tracing his journey from his childhood home in Simi Valley to Hollywood California.
 

 

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Amexica

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Amexica is a sonic journey to "Aztlan", a new yardstick for psychedelic Chicano-rock and The New Brown Soul.

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Sketch of a Man

Freddy Trujillo

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Freddy Trujillo unleashes his most personal album to date, “Sketch of a Man.” Poetic memoir, melody and grooves shimmy and shine on this 10-track album, recorded in one, hot week with long time collaborator and celebrated producer Luther Russell in L.A., a stone’s throw from Trujillo’s old stomping grounds. Trujillo brings Western American soul

Freddy Trujillo unleashes his most personal album to date, “Sketch of a Man.” Poetic memoir, melody and grooves shimmy and shine on this 10-track album, recorded in one, hot week with long time collaborator and celebrated producer Luther Russell in L.A., a stone’s throw from Trujillo’s old stomping grounds. Trujillo brings Western American soul with Mexican swing to Sketch, creating an eclectic musical stew with lyrical themes exploring his Chicano roots, tracing his journey from his childhood home in Simi Valley to Hollywood California

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Hawks & Highways

Freddy Trujillo

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Native American folk meets rock in espanol; eclectic, melodic, well-written music embraced by ethnic flavors.

Freddy Trujillo was born in 1969 in Simi Valley, California. Throughout his life, Freddy Trujillo became more and more intrigued by Native-American culture, an interest, which blossomed after meeting and befriending many intertribal

Native American folk meets rock in espanol; eclectic, melodic, well-written music embraced by ethnic flavors.

Freddy Trujillo was born in 1969 in Simi Valley, California. Throughout his life, Freddy Trujillo became more and more intrigued by Native-American culture, an interest, which blossomed after meeting and befriending many intertribal families in the Pacific Northwest. Getting involved with powwows and native causes led Freddy to meeting the Trimble-Robideau family. He eventually married Monika Robideau, second cousin of freedom-fighter Leonard Peltier. Trujillo's dream of creating a conceptual rock and roll/pop record about the modern American Indian and Chicano experience has finally been realized with the birth of Hawks and Highways. Not since the classic days of Jesse Ed Davis, Redbone and Robbie Robertson of the Band has music come along that is at once rootsy and melodic as it is uniquely Native-American themed.

Freddy Trujillo began his musical career in 1988 playing bass with Pat Smear from the legendary L.A. punk band the Germs, later of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. He was then with Geffen recording artists I Love You for a brief spell before joining forces with his sister, Amy Trujillo, who as Am'e Lorain had a top ten hit called "Whole Wide World." Along with drummer Victor Indrizzo (Beck, Macy Gray, Willie Nelson) they formed Family Affair, a multi-ethnic funk group that made a critically acclaimed album for BMG in 1990.

In 1993, after Family Affair disbanded, Freddy moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon to pursue an education at Portland State University. His focus was classical bass and Chicano/Latino studies. This led to playing in the school symphony and getting heavily involved in M.E.Ch.A., a student movement dedicated to the awareness of Mexican-American culture. Still, Freddy had always wanted to play his own music, which took over as his main goal after years of the college grind.

In 1998, Freddy started to drift into the local Portland music scene, which led to forming the short-lived group Federale with Luther Russell (Freewheelers), Jimi Bott (Fabulous Thunderbirds) and Marc Ford (Black Crowes). Federale managed to sign with Geffen, but disbanded prior to delivering a record. Nonetheless, this change in fortune provided the genesis for Freddy Trujillo's solo debut Hawks and Highways, after he was persuaded by old friend Luther Russell to give his own music a whirl. Luther, who has produced countless independent roots-rock and rock en español albums in the Northwest, helmed the recording of Hawks and Highways along with engineer Mike Coykendall of SanFrancisco's own Old Joe Clarks.

Hawks and Highways emerges as the first true Native-American-themed rock and roll record of the millennium, with echoes of Freddy's Chicano background and musical influences as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Los Lobos and the Beatles. Songs like "Red Bones" (which has already been covered twice) and "Hawks and Highways" address Trujillo's feelings about his heritage, while "Sides" and "Owl Dance" reflect his Mexican influences. Hawks and Highways is not without it's rambunctious humor, where Luther Russell's "Art of Hangin' Loose (In An Uptight World)" and the Latin Brothers'"Buscándote" get fevered readings. The sound of the album is homespun and colorful, Inglés y Spanish, Red and Brown, Pop and Soul and something different for a new generation of music listeners and rock and roll fans.

¡Disfruta!

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Hawks & Highways: Vinyl
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Hawks & Highways: Vinyl

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Limited Edition Black 160 gram 12" vinyl. Cover is a matte finish. The album is debut solo release, which deals with the intertwining of Native American and Chicano experiences in Rock n' Roll form. Tribute to bands like Redbone and El Chicano with a little Beatle pop influence.

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Amexica: Vinyl
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Amexica: Vinyl

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Release Year- 2014 Limited Edition Black 160 gram 12" vinyl. Cover is a matte finish. Second album, is more Chicano-themed with songs tributing Tejano artists like Freddy Fender.

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Hawks & Highways: CD
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Hawks & Highways: CD

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Release year 2002 First Edition Compact Disc in Jewel box with full-color disc and four-panel sleeve.

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Amexica: CD
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Release year - 2002 First edition full-color disc and full-color sleeve. 888295029889

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Sketch of a Man: CD
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Sketch of a Man: CD

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Release Year- 2022 First Edition Compact Disc Black and White disc and Digipak. Poetic memoir, melody and grooves shimmy and shine on this 10-track album, recorded in one, hot week with longtime collaborator and celebrated producer Luther Russell in L.A. The album is an eclectic musical stew with lyrical themes exploring his Chicano roots and

Release Year- 2022 First Edition Compact Disc Black and White disc and Digipak. Poetic memoir, melody and grooves shimmy and shine on this 10-track album, recorded in one, hot week with longtime collaborator and celebrated producer Luther Russell in L.A. The album is an eclectic musical stew with lyrical themes exploring his Chicano roots and tracing his journey from his childhood home in Simi Valley to Hollywood California.

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Sketches of a Man T-Shirt
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Sketch of a Man album cover print White 100% t-shirt with a black print.

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Freddy Trujillo of Delines & Richmond Fontaine Premieres 'Little Birds' Video” - Cara Gibney

No Depression

Freddy Trujillo on The Delines, Richmond Fontaine, and the Music of his Mixed Heritage” - Cara Gibney

No Depression

Episode #14 featuring Freddy Trujillo”

That Much Further West Podcast

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