Music CD - Los Lobos: The Town and the City

	Music CD: The Town and the City Artist: Los Lobos List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $10.89 Your Save: $ 8.09 ( 43% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
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Tracks: 1. The Valley 2. Hold On 3. The Road To Gila Bend 4. Chuco's Cumbia 5. If You Were Only Here Tonight 6. Luna 7. Two Dogs And A BOne 8. Little Things 9. The City 10. Don't Ask Why 11. No Puedo Mas 12. Free Up 13. The Town
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0720616266125 Format: Enhanced Label: Hollywood Records Manufacturer: Hollywood Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Records Release Date: 2006-09-12 Studio: Hollywood Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A Great American Rock Recording Comment: This is a great American rock recording. American music is after all a confluence of influences. Among others, think jazz, blues, zydeco, soul and of course rock and roll. Roots music. Here Los Lobos provide us with an extraordinary example of the confluence of influences. The musicianship, song writing and arrangements are beyond reproach. I spend a fair amount of time looking for the "perfect record." This qualifies. Every time I listen I hear something new--The Town and the Country is a deeply satisfying, beautiful musical experience and the most listenable recording I have heard in many years. Thanks guys. Customer Rating: Summary: Not their best since (insert album here) Comment: This is not Los Lobos's best album since Kiko, By the Light of the Moon, Colossal Head, or any other album you care to name. It's their best album ever. It's similar to Kiko, displaying their mastery of rock'n'roll, blues, Mexican folk music, country, and psychedelia. It differs from Kiko in that the styles are even more melded together, and every track is so sharp and strong my mind is simply boggled. I had started thinking Los Lobos would never write a song that would relentlessly haunt me (like When The Circus Comes) again. I am gloriously wrong. I've listened to the album four times in two days and I can't tell you which track is the finest. Let me listen to it a couple of hundred times, and I'll get back to you. Customer Rating: Summary: Los Lobos Back in Town! Comment: After a couple of pretty disappointing albums released in the 1990's Los Lobos returned to form with fine albums such as "Good Morning Aztlan" and "The Ride". The band continues the positive direction with 2006 release "The Town and the City". Though never as adventurous and consistent as their two greatest albums "Kiko" and "The Neighborhood", the album contains lots of great music. More room is given to the soft melodic side of the band which suits the voice of David Hidalgo so well. Highlights for me are the two Hidalgo ballads "If You Were Only Here Tonight" and "Little Things". Among the harder up-beat track "The Road to Gila Bend" stands out - this song would have fitted nicely into the "Kiko" album. Key songs, of course, are the two title tracks, "The City" and "The Town". "The City" is both rhytmic and grandiose, lyrically dealing with the alluring night-life of the city. "The Town" deals with the darker side of city life. A great bluesy song that makes a perfect ending to another fine Los Lobos album. Customer Rating: Summary: This Rocks! Comment: This is their best work yet. Saw them last summer and loved them. They got better with age. Customer Rating: Summary: wow Comment: the next stage in the KIKO evolution. i have been waiting for this. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: After variously celebrating their 30th anniversary with the star-studded The Ride, documenting their bracing live shows on Live at the Fillmore and doing a little intimate musical retrenchment on the self-released Acoustic En Vivo, Los Lobos returned to the studio with creative exploration on their minds. The result is their most sonically adventurous, thematically taut collection since the heady days of Kiko and Colossal Head. With lyrics penned mostly by multi-instrumentalist Louis Perez, the album's first-person narrative views a myriad of larger issues through slices of local life, from the immigrants' physical and spiritual travails of "The Valley" and "Hold On" to the liturgical grace of "Little Things" and the haunting impressionism of "The City." The musical tack is even more adventurous, a melange of diverse flavors that ranges from the infectious calo Spanglish patois of Cesar Rosa's "Chuco's Cumbia" and neo-norteno "The Road to Gila Bend" to the chunky r&b groove of "Don't Ask Why," the Caribbean-Latin fusion of "No Pueda Mas" and the shadowy, jazz reflectiveness of the "The Town." The Lobos blend it all into a compelling sonic landscape, one that's tamed the playful, psychedelic spirit of Perez and David Hidalgo's free-spirited Latin Playboys side project and focused it into a band context with rich rewards at every turn. -- Jerry McCulley