By Leah Scarpelli & David Brown – TexasStandard.org – Photo Not Credited.
Photo: Freddy Fender on stage.
Baldemar Huerta, known as Freddy Fender, was in his day, a Mexican-American Elvis. Twelve years after his death from lung cancer, his daughter, Tammy Fender, has published the first of two biographies about her father. The title of the book borrows from the name of a song a lot of Americans of a certain age can sing by heart – “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.”
