About ten years ago I stumbled by accident onto the greatest flamenco guitarist and arguably the world's greatest, Francisco Sanchez aka Paco de Lucia.
Paco's career has spanned over forty years, but the pinnacle of his career was probably in the 1970's. So for this reason being able to see him play live has become a decreasingly likely probability. Especially since I only became aware of him around 2001 or so.
There was a tour around 2004 for the Cositas Buenas album, but with the Bush administration being in power and their propensity for ridiculousness Paco's bass player was not allowed a work visa because he was Cuban.
I think that because of the bitter taste that left with Paco none of his subsequent tours have had dates within the U.S. So, I'd pretty much given up hope of ever being able to see him live...until now.
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