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Following in the tradition of Question Mark and the Mysterians, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, the Sir Douglas Quintet (Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers), Carrasco and his Crowns emerged from playing seedy Texas Chicano barrooms and two-bit saloons, where gringos were decidedly unwelcome, to the international limelight as a Nuevo Wave Tex-Mex farfisa driven punk band in the early 80s, touring the U.S.A., Canada and Europe. Secretly championed by a group of powerful in-cahoots music critics including Bob Christgau, Billy Altman, Lester Bangs, Joe Nick Patoski, Ed Ward and John Morthland, a mystique was hyped about this weird Tex-Mex King Carrasco (named by his Chicano friends after a Mexican dope dealer who was killed escaping jail) and his band the Crowns, who at best were a Texas bar band with Norteno roots influenced by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the 60s Texas garage bands, flavored with wild yelping, mariachi, doo-wop, rockabilly, polka a honky tonk barrio band with the worlds cheesiest farfisa sound imaginable. These tapes recorded in a basement in Austin, Texas in November 1979, circulated among the hip critics of the era and repeatedly kept appearing in Bob Christgaus Village Voice Pazz and Jop Top 10 report for weeks on end. When the band made it to NYC they caused an uproar and a launch pad for a major success that never quite materialized. Press "In trendy New York City where odd is in, the New Wave audience has embraced the clown prince of West Texas Rock with the s
