The countrified milonga “Campo afuera” belongs to that small hit-squad of songs that expresses a sense of vengeance after leave-taking—the bad breakup songs, as I like to imagine them…
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Milonga
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.
The great Argentine folk singer and author Atahualpa Yupanqui worked in a country tradition that ran parallel to the downtown nightclub culture of the tango, but he made a crossover hit when he added his music to a gaucho poem written in the 1930s by Uruguayan poet and voice actor Romildo Risso.