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It was love at first sound for Max Baca. When the Los Texmaniacs bandleader first heard the rich ring of a bajo sexto, he was enamored of the 12-string instrument used in conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex ...

Max Baca grew up in New Mexico, playing in his dad’s band from age eight. After mastering bass and accordion, he picked up the bajo sexto, a Mexican twelve-string instrument featured in Tejano music.

Conjunto masters Flaco Jiménez and Max Baca team up for an album of duets, "Legends & Legacies," out this month from Smithsonian Folkways Image courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Max Baca, a ...

On the eve of his induction into the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame & Museum in San Benito, Max Baca is nostalgic about his humble beginnings in Albuquerque, N.M. The Grammy-winning bajo sexto ...

Although Max Baca, leader of San Antonio Grammy winners Los Texmaniacs, was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he’s been at the right place at the right time to become one of the keepers of that ...

The first bajo sexto Max Baca ever owned rests in a display case at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Baca’s father brought it back from Juarez, having bought it for $50 at a cantina where it ...

SAN ANTONIO — A Friday night at Gruene Hall filled up quickly when Grammy award winning band, Los Texmaniacs hit the stage. With a mix of rock and jazz, lead singer, Max Baca, stays true to his roots ...

Max Baca, the bajo sexto player known for his work with Flaco Jimenez and his own band, Los Texmaniacs, once owned four of the 12-string guitars built by San Antonio’s legendary Macias family. But ...

Max Baca grew up in New Mexico, playing in his dad’s band from age eight. After mastering bass and accordion, he picked up the bajo sexto, a Mexican twelve-string instrument featured in Tejano music.