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Very Be Careful

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Very Be Careful (VBC) is a Los Angeles band that plays Colombian vallenato music, a traditional cumbia sound that centers around the accordion, backed with percussion and bass. The group was started in 1998 in Los Angeles by accordionist Ricardo"Ricky G" Guzman and his bass playing brother Arturo "Brickems" Guzman. They were soon joined by Richard "Mil Caras" Panta on Caja Vallenata, Craig "Peabody" Martín on Guacharaca and Dante "The Rip" Ruiz on Cowbell.

The have independently released 7 full length studio albums mixed with equal parts traditional covers and original material. They have also toured to Japan playing one of the largest festivals there with over 100,000 people attending in 2005, The Fuji_Rock_Festival as well as one of London's largest, The Glastonbury Festival. In 2006, Very Be Careful completed a European tour.

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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 »