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Before the January fires came, Brian Gardner had 300 Polaroids on the wall of his basement saloon, the Hye West Saloon of Santa Poco.

Named in honor of Gardner’s wife’s Armenian heritage and the movie “Three Amigos” — “Hye” being essentially the Armenian word for “Armenian” and Santa Poco the fictional Mexican town where the ’80s comedy was set — the saloon was part cozy clubhouse, part whiskey tasting room and part after-hours speakeasy.

With the Band’s demise, Hudson settled into a consistent life as a session musician, appearing on records by Poco, Van Morrison, the Call, Camper Van Beethoven, Mary Gauthier and many others.

The record was created in the span of a month while the performer was on the road for his Poco a Poco tour; the October release is a 15-track exploration of what he calls “música Mexicana fusions.”

The L.A. antiquarian Charles Fletcher Lummis called it the Land of Poco Tiempo in his 1893 book of the same name, depicting it as a real-life territory of lotus eaters, of indolent pleasure.