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	SFBG A and E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jimenez's conjunto roots go back three generations to his grandfather, who at the turn of the century responded to an influx of Czech and German immigrants into San Antonio by mixing European accordion music with traditional Mexican corridos to create a new hybrid sound.
		Jimenez: I was using my son David on drums, Oscar Tellez on the bajo sexto [a traditional 12-string guitar with special tunings], Max Baca on bass, and Fred Ojeda singing segunda voz [second voice].
		Jimenez: Mi papa, Santiago Jimenez Sr., was the one who, along with Narciso Martinez, helped popularize the music, but it was my grandfather, Patricio, who first heard the German music that was brought to Texas and began to translate it.
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/30/43/072496music.html (1019 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: JIMENEZ, SANTIAGO, SR.
		Santiago Jimenez, Sr., conjunto accordionist and songwriter, was born in June 1913 in San Antonio.
		His father, Patricio Jimenez, was an accordionist and dance musician from Eagle Pass, Texas, and he encouraged his son to pursue his musical interests.
		Jimenez was known for his use of the two-row button accordion even after new developments were made in accordion technology.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fji3.html (353 words)

	Flaco_Jimenez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is a Tejano musician from San Antonio, New Mexico.
		Jimenez won a Grammy Award in 1986 for "Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio", a song of his father's.
		Jimenez has also one a Best Video award at the Tejano Music Awards and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from Billboard Latin Magazine for "Streets of Bakersfield" with Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Flaco_Jimenez (288 words)

	Flaco Jimenez - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco’s Conjunto style music is derived from many cultural backgrounds: from its original Tex-Mex style to Honky-Tonk Country and Rock and Roll, to the ever-present Tejano music.
		Flaco is described by People Magazine as “a heavy weight in Texas Chicano (or Tejano) music.” He won his first Grammy Award in 1986 for the re-make of his father’s song, “Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio”.
		Raul "Nunie" Rubio, does a superb job on the vocals, Flaco on the accordion, Roger Garza on the lead guitar, and the rest of the members of his very much acclaimed band: his son, David Jimenez, drums, Roy Paniagua, bass, Max Baca bajo, and Luis Chavez on the saxophone.
	www.flacojimenez.com /bio.htm (1379 words)

	Flaco Jimenez: The RootsWorld Interview
		Flaco Jimenez is 61 years old, but he bubbles and percolates like a teenager when he talks about jamming with some of the most famous musicians in the world, like The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder and Dwight Yoakam; not bad company for an accordion player from San Antonio.
		Jimenez Senior was known for his use of the two-row button accordion even after new developments were made in accordion technology.
		Jimenez was involved in conjunto music in San Antonio and south Texas for two decades.
	www.rootsworld.com /interview/flaco.html (1555 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sleepytown - Flaco Jimenez at Epinions.com
		Flaco (meaning “tall and thin” in Spanish) gained notoriety through his work with Ry Cooder and membership in The Texas Tornadoes with fellow Tex-Mex stars Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, and Augie Meyers.
		Flaco is all but absent from this number at first, adding some background commentary as the tune progresses.
		The combination of Flaco and the Morales brothers is a good one, and I hope they will get together again to make a whole record someday.
	www.epinions.com /content_120009756292 (1084 words)

	ARTISTS: Flaco Jimenez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco Jimenez, the pioneering icon of Conjunto and Tejano music, was destined to be a great musician.
		Flaco’s father, Santiago Jimenez, Sr., was labeled the “father” of Conjunto music.
		At age seven, Flaco was already performing with his father on stage in front of live audiences.
	www.hohnerusa.com /artistfJimenez.shtml (221 words)

	Rockzillaworld Flaco Jimenez Squeeze "Box King" By Marianne Ebertowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco's must have played with every musician worthwhile playing with from Ry Cooder and Doug Sahm to the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and he must have recorded just about every polka, waltz, bolero, cumbia, ranchera and corrido under the sun.
		Flaco is also proud of his young band featuring lead singer Raul "Nunie" Rubio and his son David on drums.
		Flaco and his boys are at their best when they enter the tragic and dramatic world of tex mex rancheras.
	www.rockzilla.net /ebertowski43.html (1458 words)

	Texas Monthly: Texas Music Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco's renown as an experienced master musician in the regional style caught the ears of Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records and exceptional blues guitarist Ry Cooder, which led to national tours and recording sessions on seminal albums.
		Meanwhile, Flaco's solo talents led to recordings that have become benchmarks of Tejano music, starting with El Principe del Acordeon in 1977, and continuing with Flaco Jimenez y Su Conjunto and, with his brother Santiago, Jr., El Sonido de San Antonio (1980).
		Today, Flaco Jimenez continues to record and tour internationally with universal respect and appreciation, both for his unique talent and the tradition his playing represents.
	www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/source/8848083651350/8848083661350.html (715 words)

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		Flaco Jimenez is nominated for best instrumentalist for his work with diverse artists, and for bringing the accordion to center stage.
		Flaco Jimenez takes conjunto into new territory as he continues to record, tour and appear on recordings by other artists.
		Jimenez has long been in the vanguard of musicians sprinkling his songs with Spanish and English lyrics.
	richmond.citysearch.com /feature/30191 (264 words)

	PBS - American Roots Music : Oral Histories - Flaco Jimenez
		He was the one who introduced me to rock & roll; he was the one who said, "Hey, Flaco, let's go to New York and record this project with Bob Dylan and Dr. John." He had that feeling that Conjunto could fit in different types of music.
		Lydia Mendoza is one of the pioneers representing Tex-Mex music, Conjunto music, and because of her unique voice and all those years she's been in the business, I would consider her a pioneer as far as female vocalists are concerned.
		Because they know, being that I'm from the USA, and sometimes the record labels over there are not interested.
	www.pbs.org /americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_flacojimenez.html (2102 words)

	CNN - Flaco Jimenez makes accordions sing with Tex-Mex flavor - September 15, 1999
		And yet, there he is, as musically active as he's ever been, with two new albums out this year ("Best Of Flaco Jimenez" and "One Night At Joey's") and still playing in the conjunto style that he learned from his father, Santiago Jimenez.
		While the elder Jimenez is often called the father of conjunto music, Flaco was determined to find his own voice, outside of his father's lengthy shadow.
		One thing we do know: Jimenez may not have the teen fans screaming, but he is living la vida conjunto and loving it.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Music/9909/15/jimenez (413 words)

	SANTIAGO JIMENEZ JR Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born in 1944, Santiago is the younger son of Don Santiago Jimenez Sr., one of the great pioneers of conjunto accordion style.
		Where his elder brother Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez has helped modernize conjunto by bringing in jazz, rock and rhythm and blues concepts, Santiago has purposely fashioned his own playing after his father's.
		The music represents the experience of a people and is celebrated for having helped shape a society that remains strong in its identity and cultural presence.
	www.folkloreproductions.com /Html/jimenez.html (271 words)

	Flaco Jiménez
		Flaco himself has made notable contributions to recordings by celebrities like the Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, and in particular, by Ry Cooder.
		Flaco reinforces the troubled image with a wild, whirling flourish, before teeing up the melody so the singer can drive off again.
		But Flaco is a great performer with a capacity (or perhaps a compulsion) to transmute workaday material into something magical.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/flaco.htm (711 words)

	APHC: Saturday, June 15, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jimenez was a founding member of the early-'90sTexas supergroup, the Texas Tornados, with whom he earned his second Grammy award.
		The elder Jimenez is one of the musicians who first popularized Tejano music in the late '30s, and his son quickly followed in his footsteps.
		A few years later, Flaco Jimenez was debuting as a band leader at a friend's 12th birthday party.
	prairiehome.publicradio.org /programs/19960622/19960615/JUN15BIO.htm (738 words)

	sleepytown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Five-time Grammy award winner Flaco Jimenez makes his Back Porch solo debut with SLEEPYTOWN - his most accessible album yet of Tex-Mex infused Americana with burnin' accordion riffs and guest performances by Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, and Lee Roy Parnell.
		Throughout his career, Flaco has transformed the traditional accordion-led conjunto, or Tex-Mex music and made it a favorite for fans of all types of music.
		By age seven, Flaco was playing alongside his father, famed musician Santiago Jimenez, and by the time he was 18, Flaco was in the studio making records.
	www.backporchrecords.com /albumpages/Sleepytown/sleepytown.htm (260 words)

	Flaco Jimenez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco Jimenez - vocal and accordion and his conjunto with Fred Ojeda - second voice on # 1, 5, 9, 10, and 13.
		In the past few years, thanks to Los Lobos, to Flaco Jimenez's work with Ry Cooder and to the popularity of the neighboring Louisiana Cajun and zydeco musics, conjunto has begun to creep into the Anglo consciousness.
		On his new album, Flaco Jiménez and vocalist/bajo sextist Fred Ojeda perform five songs in the style of Los Alegres de Teran.
	www.arhoolie.com /titles/3027.shtml (602 words)

	Pittsburgh Blues Society Review \| Flaco Jimenez - Sleepytown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By far, Flaco Jimenez is the coolest gato I've ever met.
		Flaco is the King of the accordion in a style of music that was invented by his father.
		The last half of the CD is a showcase of both Flaco and Nunie working together like a well-oiled machine.
	www.axiomx.com /pittsburghblues/flaco_jimenez.htm (340 words)

	Bagatellen: Flaco Jiménez — Flaco’s First (Arhoolie)
		Just a teenager when these thirty Rio sides were waxed in the late Fifties, Flaco would go on to become one of the most influential exporters of Tejano music to the world beyond his San Antonio stomping grounds.
		It’s the latter style of tunes that have the most pervasive representation and Flaco attacks them with youth-born brio, his fleet-fingered accordion fluidly filling in the cracks across a loping bass and bajo sexto fueled rhythm.
		The mature vocal harmonies that accompany many of the tracks also belie the adolescent ages of the band’s principals and point to another reason why these platters were so popular on regional jukeboxes back in the day.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/row/000142.html (168 words)

	Flaco Jimenez
		Flaco Jiménez - accordion and vocals with his conjunto.
		All of Flaco's Grammy winning album ARH 3021 (except "Margarita") plus most of ARH 3014.
		The sound is warm and relaxed, there's a nicely varied collection of regional styles including redovas, boleros and huapangos amidst the standard polka/waltz fare, and the playing is excellent with some risk-taking accordeon contemporisations.
	www.arhoolie.com /titles/318.shtml (248 words)

	Homespun Tapes - Flaco Jimenez
		Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez is a master accordionist who has taken the dance music of his birthplace, San Antonio, Texas, to people around the globe.
		He was one of the first conjunto musicians to record with a rock band, and has since recirded with Ry Cooder, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens and his Tex-Mex/rock band, The Texas Tornados, among others.
		Flaco Jiménez and Tim Alexander show you how to play the main dance forms of this lively music from the border country.
	www.homespuntapes.com /artists/artistpage.asp?artID=513 (122 words)

	Squeeze Box King
		Flaco Jimenez has always been a pioneer in the world of Conjunto and Tejano music with his incredible musicianship and unique stylings.He is famous for blending the traditional Tex-Mex and Tejano style music by adding flavors of country and Rock and Roll guitar.
		Flaco's newest album "Squeeze Box King", which he produced himself, is no different.
		With such ingenious musical stylings it is no wonder that Flaco Jimenez has established himself as an icon in the world of Tex-Mex and Tejano music.
	www.nuris.us /Squeeze-Box-King-24611923902382488049.jsp (234 words)

	Amazon.com: Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Mas!: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco Jimenez is a musician's musician and his music is the best introduction to what Tex-Mex can be in competent hands.
		San Antonio native "Flaco" Jimenez is probably best known as a member of the Texas Tornados, even though he's been cutting records since the early 1950's.
		I backed into this one via the Tornados records and his 1992 record "Partners." This is a great party record, or excellent background music for a stay on your favorite beer-drinking porch.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000001G5?v=glance (1182 words)

	Review - Flaco Jimenez: Squeeze Box King
		Flaco Jimenez is probably best known as the accordionist for the Texas Tornadoes, the Texas supergroup that included Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender and Augie Meyers, but he has roots deep in the venerable Tejano style known as conjunto.
		This album features Flaco exposing those roots, and if you've yet to be exposed to the music that grew from the marriage of German and Mexican musical cultures in south Texas, this is a perfect introduction.
		If you're a conjunto fan, or a Flaco fan generally, already, you already know you want this one.
	www.cosmik.com /aaa-archives/reviews/040101_review_flaco_jimenez.html (195 words)

	Marty's Accordion Festival!
		Flaco Jimenez has guest-starred on all kinds of projects, but on his latest he keeps his accordion close to his Tex-Mex heart.
		Vocals are serviceable and those looking for hybrids will be disappointed, but for those who like the easy-going polka-like beat of this genre, this is a sure bet -- elevated as it is by Jimenez's playful, fleet-fingered accordion fills.
		A first cousin to merengue and soukous, the Haitian style of compas has been around since the mid-1950s.
	www.rootsworld.com /freereed/lippsqueeze.html (1200 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Entre Humo Y Botellas [Best of] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaco Jimenez has been the most popular accordionist to perform, compose and record conjunto music, not only cutting numerous singles and albums for regional labels but also serving as a sideman for well-known rockers like Doug Sahm and Ry Cooder.
		This anthology was pulled from singles he recorded between 1982 and 1987 and features the major styles preferred by conjunto performers; these include the swaying, arresting polkas, rancheras and boleros, all done in Spanish, with Jimenez's accordion and vocals prominently in the upper register.
		Despite the absence of thematic or musical variety, this is a good opportunity to hear one of the masters and popularizers of a folk idiom at his best.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000003BG (265 words)

	Flaco Jimenez \| Squeeze Box King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Accordionist Flaco Jimenez has for 50 years been one of the greatest exponents of accordion-fueled conjunto music.
		Resisting any temptation to infuse pop music into his recording, Señor Jimenez offers us an unadulterated hearing of the same conjunto accordion music his father, Don Santiago Jimenez was clamed to have started.
		Very much a family oriented player, Señor Jimenez is joined by David Jimenez and Arturo Jimenez, unifying the conjunto generation gap.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?review_id=10210 (425 words)

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