Songs include - Jalapeno con Big Red, Mezcal Road, Black Cloud , Tell Me , I'm A Fool To Care , Rock Esta Noche , Funky Butt , Every Woman , Please Mr. Sandman , Just a Mile Away.

The Players: Joe King Carrasco (guitars and vocals), Ike Ritter (lead guitar) , Augie Meyers & Arturo "sauce" Gonzalez (keyboards) , Speedy Sparks (bass guitar) , Eracleo Morales & Louie Bustos (tenor saxophone) , Ernie Durawa & Richard Elizondo (drums), Charlie MacBurney (trumpet), David Mercer (farfisa), Al Castro (Marimbas), Jerry Silvas & Frank Rodarte (sax harmony on Mezcal Road).

Back on August 16, 1976 I went into ZAZ studio in San Antonio an made my first recording performingTell Me, which is on the latest Texas Tornado CD, and Tex-Mex polka classic, Mezcal Road, with the El Molino band consisting of Richard Elizondo, Ike Ritter, David Mercer, Rocky Morales, Ernie Durawa and Speedy Sparks. At this time I was heavily influenced by the San Antonio Mexican lounge band sound. Richard Elizondo really got me into Louie Prima, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Clanton and San Antonios' own Sunny Ozuna, who sang Talk To Me. Shadowing above all this was Doug Sahm, to whom some members of El Molino had played on and off with through the years continuing on to present day. I had absolutely no idea of what I was getting into, as I had never been into a recording studio before, but for $250. you could get one night plus 250 45 singles. So we went for it, and what a party it was-about 10 cases of Schlitz beer combined with bennies and Oaxaxcan and out comes my first single.

We really didn't finish it up till about 1978. It was mixed by Roger Harris who is famous for his work on Freddy Fenders' Before the Next Teardrop Falls. A lot of my closest friends consider this to be my best effort to date! It was definitely pure and innocent. Later on I heard that Elvis Costello used to play Jalapeno Con Big Red on his London radio show.

When El Molino performed live you never really knew which members were going to show up. So some club owners would try to get out of paying full price. So I figured as long as this guy Carrasco showed up, there wouldn't be any problem with dinero, and I don't mean Robert! So I needed a title. I wanted a name that had royalty tied in like-Sir Douglass Quintet, Lord August or Prince Rockin Sydney. I decided on Count Carrasco and El Molino, but my future manager, Joe Nick Patoski said Joe King Carrasco sounded cooler.