Some of you may not have heard any of Carrasco’s music which has variously been described as “wavo nuevo” and “tequila reggae.” Dig around and see if you can give a listen to such classics as Jalepeño Con Big Red, Federales, and Caca de Vaca.
You can get a sample by surfing around on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3DyiElJV14 What a pity he was not available for ICS 2009! ===Carl Kunath From: speleoste...@aol.com Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 6:36 AM To: gi...@att.net ; texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Austin Lounge Lizards Here's a little morsel about Joe "King" Carrasco. In 1979 the Huautla Project held a benefit concert at Soap Creek Saloon in Austin to raise money to buy caving rope. Through Jim Lawless, a housemate of Blake Harrison's, I lined up Joe "King" to play at it. His band was to be one of three bands playing that night. But at the last minute he had to go to his mother's unexpected wedding in Utah. He told me that he would make good on it someday. Fast forward nearly 30 years. When I was recruited to be in charge of the Howdy Party for the ICS in 2009, and starting in 2007, I contacted Joe "King" through Ruff Daniels, who owns property next to some Joe "King" has near Marble Falls. "King" said he'd do it and to keep checking back with him. So I did. When it got to be within a few months, and he was living in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California and playing in bars there, he told me, "I can't tell you for sure that I can be there! You're asking me to play in Texas in eight months, and I don't know where I'll be in eight days." So I canceled on Joe "King" Carrasco performing at the ICS Howdy Party and went instead with the Dusty Britches Band. Joe "King" knows some cavers and knows about caving. Bill Steele In a message dated 5/5/2013 8:07:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, gi...@att.net writes: Does anybody know anything about this song, supposed to be released on 7 May 2013 by the Austin Lounge Lizards? “Spelunking with Joe King Carrasco” (a brilliantly layered, corrido-inflected ballad about, well, you get the idea). A friend of mine from Maryland said he heard it on the radio today. Some of yall will remember when the Austin Lounge Lizards used to play at TCR back when they were affordable and we had some insiders working magic.Others of you won't. --Ediger
