Fender, Freddy

Fender, Freddy * June 4, 1937 – † October 14, 2006Fender, FreddyFreddy Fender Baldemar Huerta was born in San Benito, Texas, the child of migrant farmworkers from Mexico. He recalled his early life in the liner notes to his 1975 recording Before the Next Teardrop Falls: »We worked beets in Michigan, pickles in Ohio, baled hay and picked tomatoes in Indiana. When all that was over, it was cotton-picking time in Arkansas.« Emerging from that transient, impoverished childhood, which he shared with…