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Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Fun Fact: While Very Be Careful plays numerous vallenato standards, it also play originals written by Daisy Guzman, the mother of two of the band members.
Why It's Worth Watching: VBC's music carries with it a modus operandi inspired by the words of George Clinton: free your mind and your ass will follow.
For Fans Of: Alejo "El Negro Grande" Duran, Alfredo Gutierrez and Funkadelic

At first glance, Very Be Careful hardly lends itself to cross-generational accessibility. Its five Angelenos part ways with the music taste of most urbane thirtysomething musicians by playing a traditional form of Colombian folk music called vallenato. To the uninitiated, this music, the name of which literally translates to "born in the valley," sounds like a sun-soaked, country cousin of Colombia's popular dance music, cumbia. Since 1997, the group has independently released five albums, each filled mostly with cover songs, that channel the sound and texture of early vallenato recordings. Meanwhile, the quintet just finished Salad Buey, its sixth record and first of all original material. This output would make sense for traditional Colombian troubadours or nostalgic Latin Rock stars, but not really for a bunch of guys who are often mistaken for an indie-rock band. Yet, along the way, the group has made fans of artists like Joe Strummer and the Kronos Quartet.