This month, Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chronicles features music manager and promoter, Billy Cardenas. During the 1960s, Cardenas managed some of the most influential Chicano music groups including The Romancers, The Jaguars with the Salas Brothers, The Royal Jesters, Cannibal & the Headhunters, The Premiers, The Blendells, and many others including Mark’s own teenage band, Mark and the Escorts. In this interview Mark covers the span of Cardenas’ work as well as his early collaboration with another music legend, Eddie Davis. Check out Mark’s interview and for those of you that want more info on the early days of Chicano music, visit Mark’s extended essay on Bill Cardenas and his influence at: https://markguerrero.net/misc_48.php