Paco de Lucía, Made in the USA

Algeciras, Cdiz, 1947/Yucatn, Mxico, 2014) was always deeply and sentimentally Andalusian, but the cosmopolitan dimension of Paco de Luca would be poorly understood if we do not place him in those long American tours, or in a woven musical map of complicities such as those of Carlos Santana, who knelt before him during a concert in which he was simply supposed to be the opening act.There were also lights and shadows, such as the relationship he had with Al Dimeola or his happy companionship with Chick Corea.Long before Paco de Luca played a little role in a western: he appeared as a Mexican guitarist in that British western, "Hanne Caulder", by Burt Kennedy, filmed in Almera, the guitarist from Algeciras had already toured the United States, from end to end.It was Pepe de Luca, Paco's singer brother, who arrived there first, aboard the company of Jos Greco, the