Songs like “Milonga querida” can be as much a portrait of the world as a story of two lovers chafing against circumstance, and it was perhaps for this quality that Lito Bayardo’s lyrics are enjoyed today.
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Loved by many dancers for its fateful melody and its atmospheric story, the tango “Duelo criollo” departs from the cabaret cityscape of the 1920s to depict a scene that then obsessed the urban mind: the daring knife fights of the roughnecks in the hard scrabble of the outskirts.