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Raul Malo knows how to make an entrance. On a bright June morning in Nashville’s 12 South neighborhood, the Mavericks frontman comes cruising up the driveway of a hilltop coffeeshop on a Vespa scooter. He’s smiling broadly, with a green shirt unbuttoned to his chest to reveal a large medallion that’s as eye-catching as his arrival.

Malo didn’t know it when he parked the Vespa and sat down for coffee and muesli with Rolling Stone, but he was just days away from receiving news that would change his life.

The Mavericks frontman Raul Malo revealed he’s battling cancer. He shares how he plans to fight for his health and if it will affect the tour.

The band is a rarity in country music. Instead of having roots in Nashville, the band was formed in Miami, Florida in 1989. The current band members include frontman Raul Malo, Paul Deakin on drums, lead guitarist Eddie Perez and Jerry Dale McFadden on keyboards.

Original member Robert Reynolds is Trisha Yearwood’s ex-husband. He was fired from the band in 2014.

The Mavericks Raul Malo Reveals Cancer Battle

The Mavericks had their biggest hit in 1996 with the song “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down.” The band disbanded for the first time in 2000. They reunited in 2003 but broke up again after their comeback was unsuccessful.

Mavericks singer Raul Malo/Credit: YouTube

The band attempted another comeback in 2011 and performed at the Stagecoach music...

Raul Malo, the robust voice of the Mavericks, told fans on Thursday that he’s been diagnosed with cancer. In both a statement to Rolling Stone and in a video message on Instagram, Malo, 58, said doctors discovered some “cancerous spots in my digestive system” after undergoing a physical, colonoscopy, and catscan.

“Obviously, this isn’t the news I was hoping to get, or to share with you all. But I’ve got a great team of doctors and medical professionals here in Nashville. They’ve reassured me this is a very common form of cancer,...

A little more than a year after the death of Naomi Judd, a couple dozen of her friends and admirers are saluting her and daughter Wynonna on an upcoming album of songs by the Judds. A Tribute to the Judds, due out Oct. 27, will find Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, LeAnn Rimes, Jelly Roll, and many others singing 14 songs made famous by the mother-daughter duo.

“To have all of these artists, most of which are my friends, come together and lend their voices and artistry to reimagine these songs,...

In 1984, Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias teamed up for a duet that bridged country music with Latin balladry: “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” recorded for Iglesias’ album 1100 Bel Air Place became a hit on the country, Spanish, and all-genre charts, and a milestone in Nelson’s long list of collaborations.

For the latest edition of his Quarantunes series, the Mavericks’ singer Raul Malo revisits “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” with Jamey Johnson, a frequent collaborator of Nelson’s, handling the Red Headed Stranger’s parts.

CMT announced Wednesday that it has acquired exclusive broadcast rights for “Skyville Live,” an all-star concert series bringing together artists from the rock and pop worlds as well as the country and America that are the cable channel’s bread-and-butter.

The Viacom network will premiere the series with the Jan. 19 broadcast of “Skyville Live: Kris Kristofferson & Friends,” which has the venerable singer-actor joined by Jason Isbell, Brandy Clark, Lady A and Raul Malo of the Mavericks. Second up on the agenda Feb. 17 will be “Midnight Train to Georgia: Gladys Knight & Guests,” with the R&b-pop legend bringing in Martina McBride and Estelle.

Among the hour-long specials coming up down the pike as part of the series is a salute to Gregg Allman, including the late frontman of the Allman Brothers Band himself. Allman died in May 2017, so that is a bit of a tipoff to the vintage of the shows,...

Austin City Limits marks the first six years of its Hall of Fame induction ceremonies with a special retrospective featuring performances by Kris Kristofferson, Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, Los Lobos, and more. The 14-song episode culminates in a salute to Stevie Ray Vaughan with an all-star rendition of “Texas Flood” by Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang, Lyle Lovett, Lukas Nelson, Robert Randolph, and Doyle Bramhall II.

Acl Hall of Fame: The First 6 Years premieres January 2nd at 9 p.m. Et on PBS. It streams at pbs.org beginning Sunday,...

K.T. Oslin, the first female songwriter to win the CMA Award for Song of the Year, for her 1987 hit “80’s Ladies,” died Monday at 78. Oslin had been battling Parkinson’s disease and was diagnosed with Covid-19 last week, according to her friend, the journalist Robert K. Oermann, who confirmed her death.

Oslin, born Kay Toinette Oslin in Arkansas, was 45 when she released her chart-topping debut country album, 1987’s 80’s Ladies — a remarkable feat then for a woman in country music and a near impossibility today. Along with the Top 10 title track,...

For the 30th installment of his group’s ongoing “Quarantunes” series, the Mavericks’ frontman Raul Malo takes a solo turn for a cover of Sam Cooke’s classic anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come.” In previous installments, the band has tackled songs by Neil Diamond and Simon & Garfunkel in addition to their own songs.

In the video for his cover, Malo stands outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., strumming his acoustic guitar for an intimate, gentle interpretation. It’s an appropriate backdrop for the song, which Cooke...

Could your weekend playlist use a little more seasoning? Rolling Stone Latin selects some of the best new music releases from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Keep track of the latest in Latin via our playlist on Spotify.

Maluma feat. Lenny Tavárez, Justin Quiles, “Parce”

Surprise! Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma dropped his fifth studio album on Friday morning, titled Papi Juancho. After playing the “Pretty Boy” in his Grammy-nominated album, 11:11, this summer the Medellín heartthrob resuscitates the “Dirty Boy” persona that first garnered him his global fanbase … and the occasional spell of controversy.

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.

Gangstagrass, “Ain’t No Crime”

The bluegrass/hip-hop collective roar back with this fast-paced call for unity, a track off their new album No Time for Enemies. Opening with R-Son the Voice of Reason’s rapped verse that’s “sharper than an X-Acto knife,...

Kris Kristofferson turns 84 on June 22nd, and SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel is gearing up for the occasion with two programs celebrating the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter.

For the Good Times: An Outlaw Country Cruise Tribute to Kris Kristofferson is a 90-minute live tribute concert recorded earlier this year aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise. Kristofferson was the guest artist in residence on the voyage and, in addition to performing his own sets, watched as those he has inspired performed his songs. Lucinda Williams, the Mavericks’ Raul Malo,...

The Mavericks will release their first album sung entirely in Spanish on August 21st. The band, who marked their 30th anniversary last year, assemble original material and classic songs on En Español, a dream project for the group’s co-founder Raul Malo.

The eclectic band preview the LP, coming via their own Mono Mundo Recordings and Thirty Tigers, with both the studio version of the song “Poder Vivir” and a live performance video.

“This is the record I’ve been wanting the Mavericks to make for a very long time,...

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing guidelines, Ray Benson’s long-running Birthday Bash in Austin has been turned into a virtual concert for its 2020 edition. Set for Saturday, May 16th, at 8 p.m. Ct, the event will, as usual, benefit the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians and is led by performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson, and a top-notch group of country and roots artists.

Additional performers on the bill include Kat Edmonson, Randy Rogers, David Beck’s Tejano Weekend, Tami Neilson, Seth James, Randy Houser,...

The Mavericks find a unique, eye-popping way to appear together in a music video during quarantine — the animated clip for “Blame It on Your Heart” casts the band members as interstellar explorers traveling through space, time, and under the sea.

The band covered the Harlan Howard and Kostas composition, made famous by Patty Loveless in 1993, for their latest album Play the Hits, a collection of cover songs like John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart,” and Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” In the video, Mavericks singer...

Last week’s fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise featured no less than four eclectic guitar pulls, culminating with an all-star final night lineup of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar.

Each artist sang three songs, including new material from Williams (“Big Black Train,” the Trump-skewering “Man Without a Soul”) and Earle (“The Mine”), who also paid tribute to late songwriter David Olney with a rendition of his “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.”

The writers round concluded with a sing-along of “This Land Is Your Land,...

Whitney Rose puts a different twist on the tried-and-true cheating song with her new release “Believe Me, Angela.” It’s the first preview of the Canada-born, Texas-based performer’s new album We Still Go to Rodeos, out April 24th.

Mixing roots-rock jangle with a walking lead-guitar line and wisps of pedal steel, “Believe Me, Angela” depicts a woman confronting another woman about running off with her husband. “I wanna hate your every single move, every single inch of you,” she begins. But instead of lashing out at the woman, she offers some sage advice: leave,...

“You can only guess who that might be about,” Lucinda Williams said after a scorching performance of her new song “Man Without a Soul” aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise last week. A droning, guitar-driven track, the song doesn’t mention its subject directly, but as Williams alluded, it’s impossible to not pin the lyrics to the impeached President Trump.

“You bring nothing good to this world, beyond a web of cheating and stealing/you hide behind your wall of lies, but it’s coming down/yeah, it’s coming down,...

The Mavericks’ turn in a groove-heavy version of Waylon Jennings’ “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” Runaway June brush off a drunk-dialing dude in “Head Over Heels,” Dylan LeBlanc channels Neil Young in “Unanswered Questions,” and more in this week’s set of must-hear songs.

The Mavericks, “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”

The Mavericks tackle an album’s worth of country classics and rock deep cuts with Play the Hits, a covers album that shows the range of the band’s influences. Their revision of...

The Mavericks have never been averse to putting their own spin on another band’s song. This is a group, after all, who once recorded their own Tejano/surf-rock take on Motley Crue’s “Dr. Feelgood.” Now the Mavericks will release an entire album of covers, Play the Hits, on November 1st via their own label Mono Mundo Recordings.

A collection of songs originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, Waylon Jennings, and Elvis Presley, it’s a way to further illustrate the eclecticism of the group, says singer Raul Malo.

“As musicians,...

In celebration of their formation 30 years ago, the Mavericks tease new music by taking a nostalgic trip back in country-music history, offering a jazz-injected version of one of the most memorable hits of the Eighties. “Swingin’,” penned by John Anderson and frequent writing partner Lionel Delmore, topped the charts for Anderson in 1983 and went on to earn a Cma Single of the Year nomination. The Mavericks’ bubbly take on the tune, led by Raul Malo’s frisky Orbison-esque lead vocal, swaps Anderson’s thick twang for a lighter touch, featuring...

Country and Americana music is well-represented in the glut of Record Store Day releases arriving April 13th. These are the 10 we’re most excited about, from rare live sets to essential best-ofs.

Lone Justice, Live at the Palomino 1983

The vaunted Los Angeles cowpunk band rips through 12 originals and covers in this wild-eyed live set, captured at Los Angeles’ famed Palomino and featuring the early lineup of Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni and Don Willens. Included are versions of “You Are the Light” and the snarling “Working Late,” both of...

This week’s list of must-hear songs features a holiday theme, as there was no shortage of new Christmas recordings released this year. Here’s 10 of the best.

Jillian Jacqueline, “Kid at Christmas”

Two acoustic guitars and a pair of harmonized voices trace circles around one another in this wintry ballad, which finds Jacqueline longing for a return to the childlike innocence that once characterized her Christmas holidays.

Aaron Watson, “Lonely Lonestar Christmas”

“Even this fire is giving me the cold shoulder,” sings Aaron Watson, who finds himself spending Christmas...

The Mavericks are the Swiss Army knife of bands, capable of doing everything from rock & roll to Tex-Mex to jazz and soul. Now approaching their 30th anniversary, singer Raul Malo and co. breathe new life into the holiday season with Hey! Merry Christmas!, their new Christmas album.

Far from a tired genre exercise, the new LP — released earlier this month on the band’s Mono Mundo Recordings — features eight original songs penned by Malo and a handful of cowriters, plus covers of Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home...

The new single off Kentucky country vocalist Dillon Carmichael’s just released debut album, a rip-roaring Zz Top cover by Whitey Morgan and Leyla McCalla’s brassy protest song are among the must-hear country and Americana tracks this week.

Fairground Saints, “Somewhere Down the Line”

Set to a kick-drummed pulse, “Somewhere Down the Line” marries the coed Californian harmonies of Fleetwood Mac with the polished punch of modern country-pop. “I’ve got a full tank of gas and some money,” goes the chorus, stacked high with layered vocals, banjo and pedal steel.

In the wake of the deadly Washington Navy Yard shooting rampage, White House officials announced Monday that they were postponing an East Room concert with Barack and Michelle Obama celebrating various styles of Latin music. The concert, part of long-running White House taped series to honor the many types of American music, was set to feature Gloria Estefan, Romeo Santos, Lila Downs, Marco Antonio Solis, Natalie Cole, Ricky Martin, Price Royce, Arturo Sandoval, Raul Malo and Alejandro Sanz as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Photos: 10 Presidents and Their Famous Hollywood Pals "In light of today's tragic events at the

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"Ingenue" Atoms for Peace Amok (Xl Recordings)

Thom Yorke, Flea, long time Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, session drummer Joey Waronker, and percussionist Mauro Refosco have conjured up some heady experimental rock and electronica juju on this album of Radiohead-like alt-dance and fragmented rock tunes. Much of what I hear on this album had its roots in Radiohead's Amnesiac -- vague lyrics, off-kilter rhythms, Yorke's falsetto vocal phrases. Get your groove on, like Thom does in the video on the next page...

The Mavericks In Time (Valory) 

Raul Malo has a voice as angelic as Roy Orbison's. He and his country-leaning Mavs -- original bassist Robert Reynolds and drummer Paul Deakin, along with the more recent guitarist Eddie Perez -- have regrouped and released their first new music in ten years, entitled In Time, including tunes co-written by former Nrbq badass Al Anderson. Last month I was lucky enough to...

Washington, Oct 21: The Mavericks have reunited for a tour of North America and Europe, Contactmusic reports.

Country band's singer-songwriter-guitarist Raul Malo, bassist Robert Reynolds and drummer Paul Deakin have reunited for the 2012 stagecoach festival in California, where they will announce the dates of their upcoming tour.

The scheduled tour would be the 'Dance The Night Away' hitmakers first since the year 2003. (Ani)...

Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton will headline the 2012 edition of Stagecoach. The country music festival, which, like Coachella, takes place on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., takes place April 27-29. Also on the wideranging bill are Steve Martin, Kenny Rogers, Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Chris Isaak, and a reunion of The Mavericks and Alabama. For those not familiar, the Mavericks were the outstanding alternative country outfit led by Raul Malo, who logged several hits in the early ‘90s and were known for their blazingly good live shows. It turns out that the Stagecoach gig...

As opposed to buying Scholastic’s single DVD releases which feature anywhere between four to six stories, the option exists to go for one of the bundle packs, which is essentially three of the individual discs tossed into one boxed set. The latest two such sets are My First Collection Vol. 2 featuring Spoon and Chrysanthemum…and More Whimsical Stories, featuring classic folk songs and stories by beloved children’s book authors including Kevin Henkes, Jack Kent, Mercer Mayer, Rosemary Wells and Bob Barner brought to life by the voices of popular actors and musicians like Chrystal Taliafero, Raul Malo, Mia Farrow, Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Danny Glover, and Patrick Stewart. Come on, if you can have Patrick Stewart read your children a bedtime story – wouldn’t you?

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The Zombieland soundtrack. Considering that the movie revolves around a neatly-ordered roster of rules (Jesse Eisenberg’s cowardly Columbus comprehensively laying down the law on how to avoid being gobbled by the undead), it seems appropriate that the soundtrack of Zombieland should exhibit similarly taxonomic tendencies. Because the range of songs here each fall into one of several sub-categories, with these mini-groupings then in turn all uniting under a single banner – that of the Flag of Fromage. So we get examples of barroom rock cheese, lonely hearts cheese, Americana cheese, and pop culture cheese, as well as a few bits of random classical and college rock being tossed into the great zombie fondue as well.

It is a musical collection which seems attuned to the spawning movie’s two central characters, with the robust, no-nonsense sensibility of Woody Harrelson’s Tallahassee and the simpering timidity of Columbus both seeping through from specific cuts.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 91.3 Wyep and the Three Rivers Arts Festival are pleased to announce Raul Malo at 8 pm, Thursday, April 9, 2009, at the Byham Theater in downtown Pittsburgh. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 20, 2009. Originally making his mark in the county music world and then slipping into the Latin and jazz arenas via rock & roll, Raul Malo has proven to be an ever-expanding musical talent. As front man for The Mavericks from 1989 - 2001, Malo picked up a 1996 Grammy award and multiple Country Music Association awards. He released his first solo album, Today, in 2001.

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is ready to step back into the "Spotlight," and just in time for the Grammys. The songstress is set to perform at the 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year gala in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, two days before the Recording Academy's big awards show. The event marks Hudson's first public appearance since the murders of her mother, brother and nephew in October. The Dreamgirls Oscar winner joins Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Adele, Tim McGraw, Josh Groban and Raul Malo the performance docket for the fundraising fete honoring Neil Diamond. Two nights later, Huson will find out of she gets to take home any of the four gongs for she's up for, including Best R&B Album for...

Coldplay and Adele are among the acts performing at next year's MusiCares person of the year gala to honour Neil Diamond. Foo Fighters, Jennifer Hudson, Josh Groban, Tim McGraw and Raul Malo will also appear at the event, which takes place on February 6 at the Los Angeles Convention Centre. Each act is expected to cover a Diamond song. The ceremony, to take place over the two nights (more)...

Jennifer Hudson has been confirmed to sing live at 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year gala, marking her first performance since her family was murdered in October. At the event, honoring musician Neil Diamond in recognition of his exceptional artistic achievements as well as his philanthropic work, she is scheduled to sing one of Neil's songs.

Beside lining up Jennifer, the upcoming show, taking place at Los Angeles Convention Center, will also feature live appearance from Coldplay. At the banquet, the British musicians will also be joined by the likes of Adele, Foo Fighters, Josh Groban, Raul Malo and Tim McGraw.

The 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year gala will be held on February 6, 2009. Starting with an auction, it will be followed by a gala dinner and a star-studded tribute concert. The show will then culminate with the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8, 2009, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.