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Los Lobos - An evening with
Aug 20, 2017

7:00 pm.

After celebrating their 40th anniversary with the cleverly titled 2013 live album Disconnected In New York City, the hard working, constantly touring band a?" David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin a?" leaps headfirst into their fifth decade with an invitation to join them as they open fresh and exciting new Gates of Gold, their first full length studio album since 2010s Tin Can Trust (a Grammy nominee for Best Americana Album) and second with Savoy/429 Records. The dynamic songwriting, deeply poetic lyrics, thoughtful romantic and spiritual themes and eclectic blend of styles on the 11 track collection has resulted in an American saga in the rich literary tradition of legendary authors John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Yet true to form, these typically humble musical wolves started in on the project without any grand vision or musical road map. Over 30 years after Los Lobos major label breakthrough How Will The Wolf Survive? - their 1984 album that ranks #30 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s a?" their main challenge when they get off the road and head back into the studio is, as Berlin says, -trying not to do stuff we have already done. To a certain extent, we are always drawing from the same multi-faceted paint box, and we sound like what we sound like. We are proud of what we feel is an honest body of work. We just want to keep finding new ways to say things.- In the bands early recording days - those years just before and after -La Bamba,- their worldwide crossover hit from the 1987 film which reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles chart - they prepared for album recording sessions with top producers like T-Bone Burnett with pre-production that included multiple rehearsals and -outlining- what the project was going to be. The more spontaneous approach to writing and recording that they took on their 1992 Mitchell Froom co-produced set Kiko still exists today. Rosas says, -When I listen to our catalog, doing things more spontaneously in the studio has led to some of our best work.- Unlike many bands that write, gather and catalog material between studio releases, Los Lobos prefers to create their magic on the fly when they decide it is time to record. Perez says, -We never come in with a cache of 20 songs. Our thing is to write as we are recording. It is like starting with a blank canvass every time.-

Location
Cost: $48-68 per person
Contact
Stuart's Opera House
52 Public Square
Nelsonville, Ohio 45764
Phone: 740-753-1924
Website: stuartsoperahouse.org/
Interest Tags
Family Oriented, Special Interest, Arts/Music/Film,
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