@Dwight Yoakam - Carmelita | Clifford Bax Ngolab

Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Alright, I'm Wrong | Ray Seibert

Flaco Jiménez, who died July 31 at age eighty-six, was an emblem of country music’s broad, vibrant, and ever-evolving horizon—a master accordionist whose cross-cultural collaborations spoke to the adventurous and inclusive spirit of American roots music at large. A San Antonio native, he instilled the 1988 recording of “Streets of Bakersfield” by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens with lively border filigree. He also brought Tex-Mex fusion to the masses as a member of the Texas Tornados. In that impre