Bach, Woody Guthrie, Led Zeppelin and the Chilean tonada “Yo vendo unos ojos negros” — with a Mexican accent.

That’s just a sample of the music the Chicago band Sones de México may play during its New York debut tonight at Joe’s Pub.

What the band brings, producer and musician Juan Díes says, is “the diversity of son.”

He refers to the numerous regional styles that are part of this Mexican genre: son jarocho from Veracruz, son calentano from Michoacán, son de marimba from the Southern states.

In their third and latest album, “Esta Tierra es Tuya” (This Land Is Your Land), Sones’ six musicians played more than 25 mostly Mexican-made instruments.

There’s the big wooden xylophone known as a marimba. Or the teponaztli and the huehuetl, Aztec drums featured in a version of Zeppelin’s “Four Sticks.”

Also the Veracruzan harp in “Los Panaderos.” As if Mexican diversity were not enough, this song also includes Puerto Rican plena.

The album was nominated for both the 2008 Grammys and the 2007 Latin Grammys. In the mainstream awards’ best Mexican album category, they competed with established stars like Vicente Fernández, Christian Castro and Pepe Aguilar, who took the prize.

“We were the unknowns in the category,” Díes says. “But that cleared the way for us, and now we’re selling the CD all over the U.S.”

The group’s compelling musical mixing comes in part from Díes’ own anthropological research.

He obtained a master’s in ethnomusicology from Indiana University and has studied the convergence of Mexican and American rural musical traditions in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.

It is not surprising then that the band’s latest CD is named after one of folk icon Guthrie’s songs. His 1940 “This Land Is Your Land” was inspired by Midwest farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl of the ’30s and their hard times once they got to California.

“Now history repeats itself with Mexicans,” says Díes, who was born in San Luis Potosí and left for the U.S. at age 18.

In New York, Sones will also give workshops to Lincoln Center music instructors. Education is a big part of the band, incorporated as a nonprofit educational organization.

“Racism is born out of ignorance,” Díes says. “Through education, we transmit the vision that Mexican culture is more than just Speedy González.”

-by Diego Graglia