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  • 8-19-2010
  • 20 Years of the Cotati Accordion Festival
  • and beyond will descend upon Cotati, CA, for the annual Cotati Accordion Festival. There will be two full days of accordion music, a tent dedicated to nonstop polka dancing, booths for accordion clubs and vendors, and, of course, the traditional Lady-of-Spain play-along accompanied by the release of white doves. Thousands attend every year and the non-profit festival raises important funds for local youth organizations. Performers at this year's festival include: Dick Contino Flaco Jimenez Los ...
  • 5-06-2010
  • The Krayolas "Americano"
  • Hector Saldana (guitar), Flaco Jimenez (accordion) and Augie Meyers (vox organ) return to bring us ...
  • 4-25-2010
  • Cahl's Jukebox, 4-25-10
  • Today's mix: 1) The Pleasure Barons: "Gangster of Love" 2) Flaco Jimenez and Buck Owens: "Love Me ...
  • 3-16-2010
  • SXSW preview: Texas Tornados
  • out party a few weeks before SXSW at a press conference at ME Studios, where the three reconstituted Tornados — Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers and Shawn Sahm — held forth on their new baby and its long gestation. Released on Bismeaux, the custom label formed by Asleep At the Wheel's Ray Benson (which released last year's Grammy-nominated 'Willie and the Wheel') the tracks for '¡Esta Bueno!' were recorded several years ago, before the passing of the fourth Tornado, Freddy Fender, in 2006. Doug Sahm ...
  • 1-15-2010
  • New Texas Tornados!
  • sound that is synonymous with the Tornados. Augie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez are back to recreate ...
  • 12-09-2009
  • The Iguanas
  • that was a part of his mother's Mexican heritage, and inspired by master accordionist Flaco Jimenez, he took up ...
  • 10-15-2009
  • Faits Divers
  • Flaco Jimenez on accordeon here? Yup. What´s more, he even wrote the song.Lila Downs - Tu Recuerdo Y Yo ...
  • 10-05-2003
  • Flaco Jimenez - Squeeze Box King (from All About Jazz)
  • The roots of conjunto music (like its cousin tejano ) are broad, long, and deep. The epicenter of this music lies in Mexico, with its regional and social varieties and its fully evolved assembly of song styles. The musical traditions of Southern Texas and of Northern Mexico have drawn the muse from not Mexicanos, but also from their Anglo-and African-Americans and Eastern European immigrant neighbors like the Czechs, Bohemians, Poles, and Moravians as well as the Germans and Italians. The German......
  • 5-31-1996
  • Flaco Jimenez - Buena Suerte, Senorita (from Entertainment Weekly)
  • Flaco Jimenez, a squeeze-box legend long before he became one fourth of the Texas Tornados, returns to his roots on Buena Suerte, Senorita, an all-Spanish conjunto record. By mixing polka and waltz rhythms with Mexican folk flavors, he conjures up images of old-world Europe and Mexican dance halls, where anything can — and does — happen. B...
  • 1-01-1989
  • Flaco Jiminez - Arriba El Norte (from Robert Christgau)
  • Comparison to Santiago Jr.'s more generic-sounding Familia y Tradicion leaves no doubt as to why Flaco has been the hep Chicano box-squeezer since Doug Sahm brought him to New York in 1972. For this brother, traditionalism doesn't mean straight and square--he's sprightly and flexible, "pop" only because he's not allergic to change. And this 1969-1980 compilation from his San Antonio label, complete with translations and knowledgeable notes, ought to be the Flaco for me. But though a similar coll......