Little Joe Part Dos (II)

By A. Govea

October 12, 2014

Little Joe

In part one I ended the article by saying Joe has a mass of loyal fans statewide, that was a grave understatement.  In fact Little Joe has fans all over the US and Internationally.  He has toured cities in Japan, Italy, Spain and others.  So to have said Joe has fans statewide is like saying Mexico has a few Mexicans.

 Little Joe has played for crowds in excess of 70,000 at Houston’s Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans and at outdoor festivals to crowds of over 500,000.  Truly Joe has been responsible for keeping the Onda Tejana alive both in the US and abroad. His influence is still felt by all current and up and comers.  After 50 years and 50 albums he is still the “King of The Brown Sound.”  In addition, he performed at the Inaugural Ball for our last great Democratic Governor Ann Richards, inaugural festivals for Bill Clinton, numerous National Conventions and Balls.  And to prove you cannot label Little Joe just  a Tejano Band, he has also performed at the famous LA’s House of Blues.

But for most of us we still turn out to hear our favorites Las Nubes, Prieta Linda and so many others which most times makes even the fair weather Chicano scream AYA And so it was for me and a large vocal crowd at Billy Bob’s on an August Saturday Night.  Little Joe came out which has become a standard salute to all our troops with a heartfelt rendition of America the Beautiful. He also revealed his support for Wendy Davis after taking of jacket to reveal a Wendy T-Shirt perhaps he did the same for our former governor the late Ann Richards many hope it is a good sign. I was happily impressed to see how he continues to cut a cross demographic age groups with people in their 20’s to senior citizens that have followed him his whole career, some showing  up in scooters and wheel chairs. And so the beat goes on, he has a new release titled Evolution that is filled with  all your favorites, in addition you can now have Little Joe Salsa which comes in several flavors which I can personally say is Muy Bueno. To find out more about both and see our interview visit us at holatexas.us.  In conclusion, we all will have to agree that Joe kept his graveside promise to his younger brother Jessie a former band member that was killed in an automobile accident in 1964 “ I promise you that I will take our music to the Top!” And so he did and we are all richer for it.