Never heard before? This is wonderful, in-the-pocket music, perfect for those who love ' accordion/bano sexto, workouts. The songs come from the same 1955-1965 time frame as 's 24-track , but there's no duplication, and these don't sound anything like second-rate leftovers. Far from it -- the tantalizingly brief 43 minutes of music here makes you eager to hear more. The two-paragraph liner notes adequately sketch the fundamental story down to the group breaking up in 1972, when accordion player became a born-again Christian and abandoned secular music (the devil's music must lurk in many forms). The group's big 1958 hit, opened ' , and it's not a great stretch to suspect that -leaning rockers, like and , were hearing right along with when they were coming up. Now, , or is a pretty by-the-book style, so the shock is how fresh and open this music sounds. It doesn't feel reined in or locked down by genre rules, as tosses off nice solo moves on just rockets along nice and rangy and light. Part of it is an inventive accordion style, mixing unusual chord flavors with single note flurries -- broad notes playing against staccato bursts offer plenty of intriguing soloing possibilities, as demonstrates on his instrumentals, like or the exuberant There's another reason, but it's not capably holding down the bano sexto fort. Let's give the uncredited drummer on these tracks some credit, because he does more than just keep time and beat. It's active, but nothing fancy, based on rolling tom-toms, and it gives the music all sorts of snap and new dimensions, be it on another instrumental like the near-ballad or the rat-a-tat punctuations in The last song broadly hints at 's future conversion, but returns to secular love, so there's a / duality at play here. The is haunting and brooding, with staccato accordion interjections, and is a rapid-fire, good time declaration of drunken love. features soprano sax or clarinet intertwining with the accordion -- it's another distinct touch, lively and bright. What a great surprise and discovery is. The brothers' vocal harmony blend is really impressive, and this accomplished and vital band should rank right up there with and wildman for anyone starting to check out this side of Texas/ music. For those already aware of this genre, is certainly a band to become well-acquainted with. ~ Don Snowden