Paco de Lucia

A pretty spot-on introduction to flamenco as it sounded in the late 20th century. What had once seemed an unholy marriage between rock, jazz and flamenco was no longer shocking, and everyone from Paco de Lucia and Camaron de la Isla to Ketama had proved that what had been a stark folk music could reinvent itself as pop. Still, this is flamenco: you can't get out of here without hearing a few cries from the depths of a soul -- Carmen Linares', for one -- and 3 A.M. laments. After all, that's what hardcore flamenco fans live for.