It was an album that sent shock waves through guitar world back in 1981, influencing hordes of string-benders who knew Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin but first heard about their collaborator Paco de Lucía only after “Friday Night In San Francisco” was out – or at least not before he formed trio with Mahavishnu John and Larry Coryell two years earlier. By then, the flamenco master had become a music idol in his native Spain, performing solo and with various vocalists, including his older brother Pepe de Lucía – but nobody expected the siblings’ childhood tapes to emerge just recently and be issued to mark the tenth anniversary of the legendary musician’s passing.
