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The Mavericks
Band Miami United States Formed 1989 American country music band
The Mavericks formed in 1989 in Miami, United States. The Mavericks has 39 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Come Unto Me”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #12. The station that charted The Mavericks most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
The Mavericks started in Miami in 1989 with Raul Malo singing and playing guitar, Paul Deakin on drums, Robert Reynolds on bass and Ben Peeler on lead guitar, and from the start they treated country music as a big room with plenty of doors. One independent album got them to MCA Nashville, where the lead guitar spot kept turning over (David Lee Holt, then Nick Kane) and 1994's What a Crying Shame went platinum in the States. Four albums for MCA and one for Mercury later, they called it off in 2000.
The sound is the reason they matter: Tejano swing, Latin rhythm, Americana grit and the sweet sway of vintage pop, all orbiting Malo's big, aching voice. Trampoline, in 1998, gave them "Dance the Night Away", a hit in the UK. A 2003 reunion on Sanctuary added Eddie Perez on guitar and made former touring keyboardist Jerry Dale McFadden a full member.
That five-piece came back again in 2012, first on Big Machine's Valory imprint and later on Mono Mundo. The Suited Up and Ready EP brought "Come Unto Me" that year, and Brand New Day followed in 2017; Reynolds was fired in between, in 2014. Along the way came a CMA award for international achievement and an Americana Award for duo or group of the year. Malo died of colon cancer in 2025, and in 2026 the band went back on the road with James Otto and Emily West as guest vocalists.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Mavericks on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come Unto Me | 8 | #12 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Dance the Night Away | 6 | #124 | – | – | |
| 3 | Recuerdos | 2 | #74 | – | – | |
| 4 | Damned If You Do | 4 | #33 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | Brand New Day | 3 | #38 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | The Air That I Breathe | 3 | #573 | – | – | |
| 7 | Live Close By | 2 | #64 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | I Want to Know | 2 | #430 | – | – | |
| 9 | Poder Vivir | 1 | #88 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | Swingin' | 1 | #506 | – | – | |
| 11 | All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down | 1 | #519 | – | – | |
| 12 | Live Close By (Visit Often) | 1 | #119 | – | 2024 | |
| 13 | Live Close By (Visit Often) (w/Nicole Atkins) | 1 | #75 | – | 2024 | |
| 14 | Easy As It Seems | 1 | #795 | – | – | |
| 15 | What A Crying Shame | 1 | #744 | – | – | |
| 16 | Shine Your Light | 1 | #890 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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