The Dangerous World of Very Be Careful
By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor
Looking for trouble? Colombia is a good place to find it. This has been true at least as far back as the early 1980s, when director Jeremy Marre filmed Shotguns and Accordions: Music of the Marijuana Regions of Colombia. Marre's documentary on the intersection of the drug trade with the local folk style known as vallenato seems almost quaint in comparison to Colombia's current narcopolitical crisis. A similar combination of beauty and danger can be… more »