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Mavericks drummer Paul Deakin on his band’s resurrection and 25th anniversary
Meet the Mavericks: (L-R:) Eddie Perez, Paul Deakin, Raul Malo, Robert Reynolds, Jerry Dale McFadden.
Photo: Photog: Mark Tucker
By Noah Schaffer
In December 1989, a country band with a Cuban-American lead singer took the stage at a punk rock club in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. “It was all wrong, and somehow it worked,” says Paul Deakin, co-founder and drummer of the Mavericks.
Along with lead singer Raul Malo, bassist Robert Reynolds and a cast of newer members, the Mavericks have somehow managed to maintain a large audience despite playing a meld of Tex-Mex, lounge jazz, and honky tonk which couldn’t be further away from the modern Nashville country-pop sound.
Two years ago they reunited after a 7-year hiatus.
The result was a tour with an expanded lineup that featured a horn section and the LP In Time. Now they’re continuing their second incarnation with a 25th anniversary tour which