from yesterday's Dallas Morning News, full story can be found at http://www.dallasnews.com/arts-nf/music1.htm By Thor Christensen / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - He's the flame-keeper of American roots music, but Los Lobos singer David Hidalgo also has a dark musical secret: He's an unrepentant Shania Twain junkie. "Did you see her TV special? I taped it. . . . I love Shania," the singer says, flipping through the latest copy of Billboard in search of a photo of the comely country-pop thrush. "If Shania ever wants to do a duet, I'm there. . . . I wanted to do 'Man, I Feel Like a Woman' on the air today, but they wouldn't let us." Relaxing in the offices of Austin's KGSR-FM after a recent on-air performance, Mr. Hidalgo is joking about actually doing a Shania song. But if he really did decide to play one, he'd probably turn it into a surreal blues anthem or a wicked Tex-Mex stomp: Since helping pilot Los Lobos to fame in the early '80s, the 44-year-old musician has quietly become one of rock's most provocative artists.
