Los Lobos - The Ride
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Artist: Los LobosEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: Fontana Mammoth
Soundtracks:
- La Venganza de Los Pelados - featuring Cafe Tacuba
- Rita
- Is This All There Is? - featuring Little Willie G.
- Charmed
- Somewhere In Time - featuring Dave Alvin
- Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street - featuring Bobby Womack
- Kitate - featuring Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales
- Hurry Tomorrow
- Ya Se Va - featuring Ruben Blades
- Wreck Of The Carlos Rey - featuring Richard Thompson
- Matter Of Time - featuring Elvis Costello
- Someday - featuring Mavis Staples
- Chains Of Love
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Free Music Review: Los Lobos Hits the Mark Alone and with Great Guest
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent CD by the band featuring great songs and music that matches some of their best. Included are writing and singing collaborations by great artists like Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello, Tom Waites, Bobby Womack, Willie G., Richard Thompson, Ruben Blades, Martha Gonzalez and Cafe Tucuba. Elvis Costello sounds so rich in blusey in the appropriate "Matter of Time" he ought to give Perry Como a rest and hang with Los Lobos. My favorite is the poignant "Somewhere in Time" with the deep baritone voice of Dave Alvin alternating with David Hildago's crystal clear high tenor voice. It works extraordinary well and the lyrics are both haunting while gleaming with hope as indicated in the same below:
Another night, on a highway somewhere in time
Darkness plays those tricks on me
Far down the road in the shadows somewhere in time
Am I the man I'm supposed to be?
Hildago's vocal on "Rita" is just plainly beautiful along with Womacks soulful "wicked Rain". Wonderful with songs played and sung by just Perez, Rosas, Lozano, Hildago and Berlin but the collaborations with their guests make this an even deeper experience.
The Ride Poster
After hitting a creative peak in the early '90s, Los Lobos settled into a decade-long groove that was perhaps a little too comfortable. The band's twelfth studio CD, The Ride, tries to shake things up a bit, and mostly succeeds by pairing the group with a string of collaborators similar to Carlos Santana's Supernatural. Only instead of the young hit-makers that propelled Santana's comeback, The Ride matches Los Lobos with early influences (Bobby Womack, Little Willie G) and long-time friends (Dave Alvin, Elvis Costello).
The experimentalism that fueled 1992's Kiko can be found here on a couple of tracks--most notably "Kitate," a deliriously wiggy collaboration with Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales of Quetzal--but generally the focus is on blues, soul, and roots rock. Surprisingly, some of the strongest performances are new versions of songs previously recorded by Lobos: Costello helps the band re-invent "Matter of Time" as a piano and pedal-steel guitar ballad; Mavis Staples turns the folk-blues lament of "Someday" into rousing Stax soul/gospel; and Womack segues effortlessly from "Wicked Rain" into his '70s blaxploitation classic, "Across 110th Street." Of the newer material, the band shines brightest on "La Venganza de Los Pelados," a Latin dance workout with Caf? Tacuba, and the bluesy soul of "Chains of Love," which shreds 12-bar formula by including a 90-second violin solo. The latter is a tribute to '50s rock & rollers Don and Dewey, proving that the best road to the future is sometimes paved by revisiting the distant past. --Keith Moerer
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