Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Shotguns And Accordions (1983) Rating: Starring: Nafer Duran Director: Jeremy Marre Category: Documentary, Special Interest Studio: Shanachie Subtitles: [None] Length: 60 mins     Music of the Marijuana Growing Regions of Columbia Strangely enough, one of the world music's most exuberant, joyous sounds springs from one of the worst concentrations of organized crime and drug trade found anywhere.Shotguns and Accordions ventures to the marijuana growing regions of Colombia, and in the midst of all-night dances, cockfights, cocaine-processing labs and often violence-marred, fixed musical competitions, explores the rise of vallenato music - the hot jumpy dance music which mixes accordions, electric bass, percussion and lusty, open-throated vocals.Vallenato absorbed the local traditions - from the vibrantly rhythmic, African-rooted cumbia music to the elegant traditional flute music of the various Indian peoples - to become the soundtrack for the wide-open lifestyle of gambling and carousing fueled by drug profits.It's an astonishing tale.