Jorge Navarro

A belated but heartfelt Happy 2026! The year started off with a 'Bang Plus' - a trip to Seoul with mija, a subdural hematoma for my 94 yr. old mom (who fell out of bed at 3am en route to the bathroom), her ongoing rehab and insurance coverage craziness, a new job for me (I work in K12 education) and, now, más new música. Since I posted 'Whips N Chains' on our Bandcamp page a few days ago, so many of you have messaged me asking about how the song came about that I thought it best to tell you...

NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the new Jintero 2.0 's foreward. The memoir is due out next month in all formats(print, audio, Ebook and video). What's it about? Here's a publisher blurb for youse: Jinetero 2.0  is a darkly funny, fearless memoir from Cuban-American musician Jorge Navarro. Built around The Cuban Cowboys’ song “Jinetero,” it traces his first return to Cuba since his family's exile—into a world where sex, survival, and politics intertwine. What begins as a quest for...

©terry towery It's been too long. I miss you and do hope you remember me. My passport says I've been to 73 countries. I had to order one of those extra-pages passports. It looks and feels more like a little booklet than a travel document or form of identification. Hundreds of stamps, full-page entrance visas (thank you Saudi Arabia and China), hand signatures (India's crazy that way). My passport marks me as well-traveled American which, for some, is as un-American as bilingualism. I wanted...