Over more than 35 years they’ve been performing together, Los Lobos‘ David Hidalgo and Louie Perez have composed countless songs that speak to the experience of growing up in this country with family roots in Mexico. But one of the things that set their music apart from other such cultural hybrids is their preference for rock ‘n’ roll. That is, rock ‘n’ roll that can trace its roots to the blues and other forms of traditional American music. When you throw in the preference of the band’s other songwriting powerhouse, Cesar Rosas, for Latin hip-shakers like cumbias and Tex-Mex corridos, you get a near-complete sonic footprint of the American Southwest.
Those musical influences combine with vivid songwriting on Tin Can Trust, and it’s all propelled by the kind of playing from the rest of the band (Conrad Lozano on bass and Steve Berlin on sax) that only comes from playing together for more than 30 years.
They explain the Spanish conquest of Mexico — and the existence of mestizo offspring like myself — in just less than five minutes. And it works. Check it out for yourselves.
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