"Non-ironic use of Vox organ ... the writing is crisp, and the sound is powerful and locked-in, effortlessly mixing Tex-Mex, Motown and British Invasion sounds into a winning concoction." -- Jeff McCord, KUT/NPR "Best Music of 2009"

Not since Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "The Lonesome Ballad of Hattie Carroll" and "Hurricane" has an American songwriter captured a moment like The Krayolas hit "Corrido Twelve Heads in Bag" that describes in song the tragedy of the hour-by-hour drug cartel violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. "Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag" is the first 21 century corrido, completely overhauling a 200-hundred year tradition into a post-modern masterpiece. Click here to read the newspaper story of the shocking incident that inspired "Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag"