New Album Due From Los Lobos
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The East L.A. roots rock band Los Lobos will have a new album - their 14th - released on September 12. The Town And The City was produced by Tchad Blake, who previously worked with the band on Kiko and This Time, and was a member of the Los Lobos side project, the Latin Playboys.
Los Lobos are back.According to a press release from the group's publicist: The 13 songs on the album limn the highs and lows of life on the margins of America. There’s the family man trying to make ends meet in the soulful “The Valley,” the sinister yet spare groove of “Hold On” echoing the narrator’s frayed hold on life, and “The Road To Gila Bend,” a border-crossing desert lament of an immigrant on the run with nowhere to hide. The joyous, strutting “Chuco’s Cumbia” is sung in the argot of the zoot-suiters, the stylish Mexican-Americans of pre- WWII Los Angeles, while the spacey -wariness of “The City” reflects the disorienting feeling of spending a night out in new and unfamiliar territory. Both personal and universal, the songs draw on the band’s own life and the immigrant experience in 21st Century America. “Right now, when the world is in this incredible state of flux, its impossible for this not to affect your work,” Louis Perez, who co-wrote most of the album with David Hidalgo, explains. “As artists we take our experience and put it into painting, stories or songs.”You can listen to Los Lobos music at their site: http://www.loslobos.org/site/media.shtml#
Los Lobos are back.According to a press release from the group's publicist: The 13 songs on the album limn the highs and lows of life on the margins of America. There’s the family man trying to make ends meet in the soulful “The Valley,” the sinister yet spare groove of “Hold On” echoing the narrator’s frayed hold on life, and “The Road To Gila Bend,” a border-crossing desert lament of an immigrant on the run with nowhere to hide. The joyous, strutting “Chuco’s Cumbia” is sung in the argot of the zoot-suiters, the stylish Mexican-Americans of pre- WWII Los Angeles, while the spacey -wariness of “The City” reflects the disorienting feeling of spending a night out in new and unfamiliar territory. Both personal and universal, the songs draw on the band’s own life and the immigrant experience in 21st Century America. “Right now, when the world is in this incredible state of flux, its impossible for this not to affect your work,” Louis Perez, who co-wrote most of the album with David Hidalgo, explains. “As artists we take our experience and put it into painting, stories or songs.”You can listen to Los Lobos music at their site: http://www.loslobos.org/site/media.shtml#
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