Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne. The Longoria family dynasty in Tex-Mex music begins in the 1920s in a Mississippi cotton field, with no one in the large family of Valerio Longoria Sr. aware that a master musician was growing up in their midst.
Detroit is nicknamed motor city because it has been the center of the American automotive industry for more than a century. Henry Ford located his first assembly line in Detroit. Detroit was the key hub for auto manufacturing for much of the 20th Century.
Motor City: The Story of Detroit. âYou can see here, as it is impossible to do in a more varied and complex city, the whole structure of an industrial society.â So wrote essayist Edmund Wilson, reporting on a visit to the Motor City in the 1930s.