Over the past 24 years, including a decade living in Mexico City, I have made dozens of trips to Tijuana and watched the city slowly mature from a kind of wild west dependence on migrant-smuggling and American tourism to a more self-contained and economically viable metropolis. I grew fascin...
000 tour buses--the older guys derisively call them “the hats”--Owens knew the life, and when he and his peers later came to write songs about it, they did not write longingly of the heat and the hard work, the Dust