As I Walk Through the Valley | Underground Music Documentary …Exploring 40 years of underground music from the Rio Grande Valley, from early garage rock and Chicano funk through the Chicano/Tejano era and up to the metal and pop punk of the 2000s.
Ronnie Garza and Charlie Vela, the people behind “As I Walk Through the Valley,” takes a journey into the underground music scene of Texas’ southernmost border region, in a deep look at the development and inspiration behind the underground music scene in the Rio Grande Valley.
That music, according to the filmmakers, “is a window into the culture of the valley”.
“The Valley” in Texas refers to the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV), a four-county region in the southernmost part of the state, along the U.S.-Mexico border. It is a fast-growing area known for its citrus production, unique birding opportunities, and the popular tourist destination South Padre Island. The counties include Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), often referred to as the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of South Texas, is a region located in the southernmost part of Texas, along the northern bank of the Rio Grande. It is also known locally as The Valley, El Valle, or 956 (the area code for the region). It is a region spanning the border of Texas with Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth.[1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas. It consists of the Brownsville-Harlingen and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan areas, and the Rio Grande City-Roma and Raymondville micropolitan areas.[2][3] The area is generally bilingual in English and Spanish, with a fair amount of Spanglish[4] due to the region’s diverse history and transborder agglomerations.[5] It is home to some of the poorest cities in the nation, as well as many unincorporated, persistent poverty communities called colonias.[6][7] A large seasonal influx occurs of “winter Texans” – people who come down from the north for the winter and then return north before summer arrives.[8]
