WEEKEND EDITION FEB 28-MAR 02, 2014
The Enduring Legacy of Paco de Lucia
The Michelangelo of Flamenco
“Paco is the greatest flamenco guitar player of all time, and he killed flamenco,” another great Paco said to me in 1998, when I was living in Seville studying the flamenco guitar. Paco Valdepeñas was a toothless 78 year-old-man, great flamenco dancer, and true Gypsy bohemian from another era—the era I was most attracted to—the era before Paco de Lucia. But more on this later...continue reading on Counterpunch
