![]() The seductive red, black and gold decor echoes Mexican saloons and bordellos: velvet-flocked damask wallpaper, black-velvet paintings of half-clad senoritas and matadors, votives, mirrors, a giant chandelier. In April 2002, Hackford and Ryan Hesseling, along with general manger Cory Allen, founded One Eyed Jacks. “Music is my first love-it’s always been in my blood,” he says. Son of producer-director Taylor Hackford ( Ray, The Devil’s Advocate ), Rio spent his formative years traveling the world (New York, bullfights in Tijuana, a year in Spain) and in the company of some very talented musicians before settling in New Orleans, hanging with creative types, falling for a woman (enough in itself to reel him in) and embedding himself in the local underground music scene. It’s one of my dad’s favorite movies.” With a lean frame, purposeful swagger and affinity for Mexican culture, Hackford is a bit Brando-cowboy. “You know that’s the movie I was named after,” Rio Hackford, owner of the rock ’n’ roll bar and live-music venue One Eyed Jacks, tells me. With sun-bronzed skin, slicked back hair, holster slung low, he surveys the place with a slow sweep of the head and a keen eye on the denizens. ![]() In the 1961 cult western One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando saunters into a saloon in the dusty town of Sonora, Mexico. One Eyed Jacks is a mainstay of the New Orleans rock scene
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