Kooymans & Carillo.

George Kooymans and Frank Carillo will be back on Dutch stages during a small Summertour 2011.They will play with the Barking Dogs: Bob Langenberg on Drums, Ocki Klootwijk on bass and Tyn Smit on keys.

Frank Carillo.

Frank Carillo is the epitome of the "musician's musician." Throughout his career, his craftsmanship as a gifted world-class guitar player, memorable prolific songwriting and his warm and affable persona have allowed him to make an indelible mark on the international music scene.

Rails to Kingdom Come.

Frank Carillo and the Bandoleros are wraping up their new CD. All the work is being done at Millbrook Studios with renowned producer and sound engineer extraordinaire Paul Orofino. The CD, "Rails To Kingdom Come," is scheduled for early summer release.

2008 NARC review "Someday"

Reviewed by Helen Foley
March 14, 2008

Way back before I was a mere twinkle in the milkman’s roving eye, Frank Carillo was writing songs about such milkmen types and their manly, cowboy adventures - roaming the free land, laying a hat down and calling it home etc etc. Fast forward thirty-five years to present day and he’s at it again with his ‘Bandoleros’ and their 2008 album Someday.

This’ll surely take your Dad back to his youth, or at least the youth he darn well wishes he’d had. Let me paint you a picture; virile, Bourbon swilling ‘man o the land’, lives a rootless existence, (perhaps wakes up under desert sun with a sore head, a taste of blood in his mouth, next to a dehydrated horse), and sings in heartfelt biographical format about his current days in search for that sweet, small town girl he left behind.

Though for all I may joke, it bodes well to recognise that Carillo is somewhat of a musical veteran and has made a career out of bluesy, country tales of (mid-life crisis) woe and this may be what you’re looking for. He’s well within his genre and if you’re a little bit ‘country’, this album is a good choice, (and just a tip; ‘Gotta Be You’ is a great one if you’re planning a line dance).