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To Cactus owner Quinn Bishop, the Krayolas are a South Texas spin on well-regarded New Wave acts like the Plimsouls. The song that's gotten them noticed lately, "Corrido (Twelve Heads in a Bag)" is a border-cantina waltz whose lively rhythms masks its unsettling subject matter. Krayolas originals such as zippy breakout late-'70s single "All I Can Do Is Try" and the Little Steven-endorsed "Catherine" were just as energetic, the product of San Antonio boys listening to, alongside all that Sir Doug, an awful lot of British power-pop and pub-rock (Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe) in their formative years.
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That's why a band that hadn't played Houston since the mid-'80s - for reasons known only to them and, it sounds like, the Harris County Sheriff's Department - reintroduced itself by opening with a simmering snipped of Escovedo's "Always a Friend," and seasoned its already savory set with Sahm's textbook example of Westside country soul, "It's Gonna Be Easy," and a free 'n' easy verson of Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," heavy on the jazz trumpet and sweet sax of the West Side Horns. In the Krayolas' playbook, the three most important songwriters in Texas are still Alejandro Escovedo, Doug Sahm and Bob Dylan. Born on the West side of San Antonio, the band's congenial melding of rock and roll, norteno and honky-tonk is still muy popular from Matagorda County to Monterrey.
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If you have any idea who Joe "King" Carrasco is - the Dumas-born rocker who fooled MTV and Stiff Records into thinking his Tex-Mex party music was New Wave in the early '80s - you would have loved the Krayolas. Not at night, anyway - San Antonio's the Krayolas did manage to play Dan Electro's during Saturday afternoon's live broadcast of KPFT's Joe's Roadhouse, and Cactus Music an hour or two thereafter. The coolest band in Houston this weekend couldn't find a club or venue to play.