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Texas town where in the 7th grade he started playing in garage bands. In his late teens, he was often lured to the beaches in
Southern Mexico and was drawn to the Mexican music he was hearing around him. Back in Texas, he joined up with future members of the Texas Tornados and formed a band known as Joe "King" Carrasco & El Molino and in 1978 released his first LP titled "Tex-Mex Rock & Roll". Somehow this record made its way to England and was re-released by Big Beat Records where Elvis Costello would always play "jalapeño con big red" on his radio show - in London.
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He has received numerous awards through the years. In 2002, he was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame. In March 2012, he was honored by The Texas Music
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Joe King
Carrasco, who is known as the king of Tex-Mex rock 'n' roll, mixes Nuevo Wavo rock and Latin rhythms. Carrasco was born on December 6, 1953, in Moore County, Texas, the son of Tucker and Virginia Stovall Teutsch. In the 7th grade, he started playing in garage bands in the west Texas town of
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He reunited with the original Crowns, organist/accordionist Kris
Cummings, bassist Brad Kizer, and drummer Mike Navarro in June 2011. They toured together for the first time in 30 years during the summer and then went back to the studio to record a new CD. "Que Wow" with "Joe King Carrasco y Los
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Known as the King of Tex-Mex rock and roll, Joe "King" Carrasco, creates a stylistic borderland of pop rock and Latin rhythms. His cross-cultural stew blends cumbias, vamp, salsa, surf, reggae, blues, and Latin-tinged polkas. It has been a long road, coming from Dumas, Texas, a dusty little west
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Cummings; born 1951), Brad Kizer and Mike Navarro to form Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns and soon after releasing their first single, "Party Weekend", "the band was playing chic New York venues and generating lines around the block". The band signed to England's
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While we're at it, the
Texanist will lobby for the inclusion of the following in the Three-Named Texas Musicians Society: Little Joe Hernandez, Joe "King" Carrasco, Big Mama Thornton, Esteban "Steve" Jordan, Megan Thee Stallion, Trae tha Truth, Devin the Dude,
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A lifetime lover of dogs, Joe founded a non profit group, "Viva Perros" (www.vivaperros.org) which raises money to support homeless, abused and neglected dogs find a better life. A portion of the profits from his last live CD,
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During the 1990s, Carrasco's songwriting moved into a cumbia and reggae groove with a little Tex-Mex thrown in for spice, a combination he called "tequila reggae". This musical blend can be heard on
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