"It's so jolting to find that their new album 'Long Leaf Pine (no smack gum)' leads off with the bloody New Orleans history lesson "Marie Laveau" and quickly segues into a border tale of mass decapitation called "Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag" ... with its leap from a traditional conjunto intro to a lilting cumbia groove that evokes the surreal brilliance of Los Lobos' 'Kiko and the Lavender Moon.'"
Known as the Tex-Mex Beatles, the Chicano garage rockers have garnered flattering comparisons to the Fab Four, Bob Dylan, the Who, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Warren Zevon. The Krayolas have been profiled in Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, New York Times, The New Yorker, Paste, Pollstar, Rolling Stone, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Alt-Latino” and MTV, and are regulars on SIRIUS XM “Little Steven’s Underground Garage,” Dave Marsh’s “Kick Out the Jams,” KUTX and Ray Wylie Hubbard’s “Roots and Branches of Americana.”
In 2014, the Krayolas were inducted into the Texas Music Office’s South Texas Music Walk of Fame.
