Whoah! I almost forgot that National Hispanic Heritage Month is still going on and I haven't posted Flaco Jimenez! When it comes to accordion (don't you fucking dare dis the accordion), in Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano, he's the man. And he's recorded with Dr. John, David Lindley, Ry Cooder. Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens, and the Stones. He's received four Lifetime Achievement Awards from four different organizations, one of them a Grammy.
Here's a couple of Flaco proper and two with the Texas Tornadoes, the Tex-Mex supergroup consisting of Flaco, Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender and Augie Meyers. There's a bunch of videos at YouTube from throughout his career. The one above is from 1976.
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Listen:Flaco Jiménez - El Pata Caliente mp3 at Let's Polka
Flaco Jiménez - Laureles mp3 at Let's Polka
The Texas Tornados - Guacamole mp3 at A.Tumblr (?)
The Texas Tornados - Que Paso mp3 at The Rising Storm
Visit:
Flaco Jiménez - Interview at PBS
Flaco Jiménez at Wikipedia
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