Friday, July 16, 2010

El Acordeón del Diablo and Franciso "Pacho" Rada






Long story short kick ass 93 year old Colombian accordion player. Invented his own style and was generally rad. I had a big ol blurb written up but just deleted it. So here is someone else's thoughts: "Notorious throughout the Columbian countryside for traveling from village to village and party to party, playing his accordion for food, liquor, or just a few cents. For decades he wrote and played hundreds of songs in practical obscurity, much like many of the great blues men of the early 1900’s in America.
In Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s classic “One hundred years of solitude” (1967) he was fictionalized as Francisco el Hombre, a troubadour who comes face to face with the devil one night on a lonely road and gets the better of him in an accordion duel to save his own soul."
I can genuinely say he could be described as a mystical high stepper and sassy ol' man. Fun fact he is the patriarch of over 422 descendants including great grandchildren. Like I said, high stepper.

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