
Facebook | Courtesy of John Gonzalez San Antonio’s Tejano Conjunto Festival began in 1982. That’s also the last time brothers Flaco Jimenez and Santiago Jimenez Jr. shared a stage together. Flaco, 73, is conjunto’s crossover figure, the man who became known around the world for playing with the likes of Ry Cooder, the Rolling Stones and the Texas Tornadoes. Santiago Jr., 68, is the keeper of his elder’s more traditional conjunto style, right down to the two-button accordion. The two finally played together at this weekend’s Conjunto Festival, an eagerly anticipated performance that wasn’t a sure thing. As Hector Saldana of the San Antonio Express-News wrote, “the brothers’ relationship is complicated and mysterious. They’ve never been particularly close.” They made one record together, in 1960, ...
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