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• "Evangeline"
• "Only Girl"
• "Until I Found You"
• "Be More"

Today's guest is going to take us on a ride in a time machine back to the '50s and '60s, when the sounds of Roy Orbison, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley reigned supreme, and he's only 21 years old.

Stephen Sanchez became a sensation thanks to a song out of time going viral, called "Until I Found You," but Sanchez wasn't chasing a trend. The California native was playing a style of music he fell in love with as a child.

In this session, he tells us the tale behind his debut album, Angel Face. It tells the story of a fictitious saloon singer who falls for a mob boss' girlfriend. Sanchez also talks about how a questionable purchase massively changed the trajectory of his career.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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