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Live @ El Rey (the bootleg cd) Songs Include: Hasta Manana Iguana Buena Mas Mas Rock Este Noche Banana You Could've Been Mine Rosa La Famosa Tequila Revolution Muchos Frijoles Borrachos Chiliando (INTRO) Chiliando

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Rancho No Tengo (movie soundtrack) purchase the movie here Songs Include: Rancho No Tengo It's These Changes Chasin' Simpatico El Momento de Verdad Rumors If You ain't From West Texas Turn Left at Nogales Driftin' Apart Balazos Hungover in Oklahoma City Because A Woman Macho Grande Adios Terlingua Rancho No Tengo Instrumental If'n Myself To Death Que Le Vaya Bien

The title song Rancho No Tengo is a melody I carried around for many months in my head. Rancho No Tengo means in Spanish-- Ranch I don't have. It is the name of my property, located in the hill country near LLano, Texas. It consists of several adobe houses or casitas thrown together over ten years around a Mexican style courtyard, made from real adobe bricks. It looks like a John Wayne movie set. The song itself is more of a metaphorical exploration of the perils of living life and what happens when you step out the door, away from the safety of home, and into the dangers of the world. In other words -- " Stay on the porch- if you can't hang with the big dogs."

I wrote Chasin' Simpatico, which translates into "chasin the good," way back in the early 70's in a backyard, back when I was livin in Palo Alto California and was homesick for Texas. It seemed like a real West- Texas Doug Sahm style melody with the lyrics being about a longing for the Rio Grande border town of Del Rio in a mythical, Emerald City, kind of way. Anyone knowing Del Rio would probably think that I was crazy, but it has its coolness in an abstract kind of way.

Back in 1977, when I was playing with the late great tenor saxman, Rocky Morales, who was also working with Sir Doug, I heard him always say "It's these changes I can't stand." This proclamation always stuck with me. Rocky was the guru of the West-Side San Antonio Tex- Mex scene and I consider myself very lucky to have known and worked with him. Thirteen years later around about 1990, after being on the road constantly since 1980, living the rock and roll experience and everything that came along with it, we had played in Washington DC at the 9:30 Club and later that night I ended up at a house somewhere in Maryland, and in a very stratopheric headspace, the words and melody came to me about the ups and downs of a musician, who has been on top of the music scene, only to watch everything, including success, slowly dwindle away I consider myself very lucky to have been playing music , most of my life, but at the same time it does take a toll, but it beats roofing.

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Hay Te Guacho Cucaracho ~ Songs Include: Hay Te Guacho Cucaracho A Smile Cuesta Nada Could've Been Mine Buena Rock Esta Noche Jalapeno Con Big Red No Problema Jah Is Jamaica Easy Going Banana Shout Pancho Villa Ca Ca de Vaca Tick Tock

Hay Te Guacho Cucaracho is Mexican slang for "See you later alligator" or "After awhile crocodile". I wrote this song with mi amigos Ben Marines and Luis Garcia. Luis is a young kid from Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico. While helping me build my adobe casa, I asked him for help with the lyrics, so he put the "Mexican pop" thing to it. Now I am officially a Mexican pop star in my own mind in Mexico!! Last year he was in Austin, Texas when the immigration authorities "La Migra" caught up with him and sent him back to Chihuahua. A Smile Cuesta Nada "A Smile Cost Nothing" is a term from a Canadian amigo Juanito who lives in San Augustinillo, Oaxaxca. I dug it so much that I made it a song, with a Sir Douglas kind of groove to it. Pancho Villa is a Cumbia I wrote in 1985 in Paris, France. I always thought this would be a cool song in Mexican discos!

In 1983, I was stepping into the waves in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, but at a certain spot music would pop into my head for no reason. Banana Shout is one of the songs that came from this "musical spot". I guess I should go back there more! In 1989 there was this house that I really wanted to live in out in the Texas Hill Country. I mean I really really wanted to live there. I was stalking this empty house in a very extreme way!! I wrote You Could Have Been Mine about this experience. The rest of the songs on this CD have been my favorites through the years that I kinda wanted to update. The 65 Vox Continental played by Billy Morales is very predominant throughout the whole CD. This CD will Tick Tock your Problemas Away. So grab a bottle of Big Red and get ready to Rock Esta Noche and feel Buena!

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Hot Sun ~ Songs Include: Hot Sun Cu Ru Cu Pa Hasta Manana Iguana Cool Casa Rockin' Take With One Hand Yo Soy Tuyo There is a Rainforest Donna Do Ya Wanna On Top of a Teardrop Karmalita Adios Amor CoCo Bongo Puesta Del Sol Good Thing

I believe Hot Sun could be a classic song for me. I wrote it out in the desert between Saltillo and Matehuala, Mexico. On this CD, I combined all my favorito styles, cumbia, reggae, tex-mex ska and cha cha bolero. The organ you hear is a 1965 Vox. No synthesizer acqui!! This total lineup is about 3 years old and probably the tightest all around unit I've ever played with.

My guitar playing here is way different than anything I've attempted in the past. I guess all that AM Mexican radio rubbed off on me! If you come see us live, this is what you'll mainly hear. The songs both old and new are ones I've never recorded before. Karmalita, Yo Soy Tuyo, and Cu Ru Cu Pa, I wrote back in the mid 70's, with that heavy tex-mex roller rink Vox organ in mind. Mi favorito rock cumbia of all time, Juimonos/Let's went, is on Sam the Shams' first album. This 1965 recording featuring Wooly Bully is the map I still go by for tex-mex rock and roll!!

Take with One Hand was about our bus crash in Tequila, Jalisco. A man came by and gave us a ride to our gig in Puerto Vallarta. His philosophy was take with one hand give with the other. I thought this deserved to be sung about!! Adios Amor is about a bad malo general in Guatamala called Death Squad Lopez. On Top of a Teardrop is my tribute to Freddy Fender. Juan Diego runs into La Virgen Guadalupe in Coco Bongo. I believe she protects us all.

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Dia De Los Muertos ~ Songs Include: Chihuahua Vi Va Vi Va Va Va Voom Knockin' on Heavens Door El Arroyo Last Call For Love One Love Beat of My Heart Vera Cruz Tocame Break Down the Border Care to Explain Easy Goin' Pacha Mama Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

In the winter of 1992 we were the house band at the Hard Rock Cafe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. On the way there we crashed our bus at a railroad crossing outside of Tequila, Jalisco. But that is a whole other story. Anyway, there I soon realized that the tex-mex worked, but the chulangos from Mexico City danced more when it had more of a reggae beat. This carried over to our house gig at Pancho y Leftys' in San Miguel de Allende 2 years later. We ended up calling this style tequila reggae. When people don't dance I get muy nervioso, so I do whatever it takes.

Dia De Los Muertos is the celebration of all Saints Day en Mexico. It's got to be the coolest holiday on the planet. This beloved celebration is a joyful time of remembrance, reunion, and feasting, as families gather together to honor their loved ones who have died. Through my interest in this celebration is how I ended up making folkart altars.

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Royal Loyal & Live ~ Songs Include: 96 Tears (Every Woman I Know) Breakdown the Border Baby Let's Go to Mexico Don't Push Your Suerte Manana Sweetness is My Weakness Parti Weekend No Problema Having A Ball Salsa Perfecto Don't Let a Woman Out of You Orale Bandido Rock

In the late 1980's I assembled the best Latin musicians from Texas, consisting mostly of players associated with Little Joe y La Familia Band. They had mostly played traditional mex, so this was a chance to step a little outside that style. This band was amazing live, so we captured a few shows down on South Padre Island, Texas in 1989. It hits hard on everything from 96 Tears to straight ahead cumbia. Some of these songs were old favorites, but others had never been recorded before in the studio.

In 1987 I tried to start a hot sauce company with a rare pepper called locoto from Bolivia, where we were playing. But El FDA no gusta mucho! It was called Salsa Perfecto and this song by the same name was to be the ad jingle. The groove this band had on Orale and Bandido Rock is probably for me, the tightest ride I've ever been on in a live situation.

I believe Tom Cruz, the son-in-law of Little Joe, is the best Latin lead guitar player in the Southwest, and he really shines on this effort. I hope to release more material from these live shows in the future.

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Refried Beans ~ Songs Include: Buena Caca De Vaca Tears Been A Fallen Morning Coffee Wild 14 One More Time Sweet Little Rock & Roller That's The Love Let's Get Pretty Betty's World Federales Monkey got My Frisbee Party Weekend Houston El Mover

Somehow in the fall of 1979 our band, El Molino, slowly filtered into the new-wave punk scene in Austin, Texas. As the skirts got shorter, the music got faster. The band ended up being called The Crowns with Kris Cummings, Brad Kizer and, newly arrived from Monterrey, Mexico, Mike Navarro. Refried Beans was basically a recorded rehearsal cut down in the basesment at the old famous KOKE FM Radio Station in Austin by former DJ Joe Gracey on a 4 track reel to reel. It's pretty raw, but definintely a precursor of what was to come. Also included on Refried Beans is the first single we recorded, Party Weekend/Houston El Mover. The Reverend Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top put out the dinero to press up the singles, so I guess that means he was the executive producer.

In 1980 the Party Weekend single sort of broke us into the NYC dance club scene. We started from playing the Lone Star Cafe to playing CBGB's, the Mud Club, and Danceteria. Things started happening real fast and my guitar cord got longer. There is an island on Lake Catemaco, Mexico with lot's of loco monkey's on it that like frisbee's. The song Monkey Got My Frisbee was recorded a year later, but found a home on Refried Beans.