Los Lobos - 1987-04-03 - Cincinnati, OH (Ex Aud)

Los Lobos

1987-04-03

Bogart's

Cincinnati, OH

Excellent Audience Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Evangeline

02. We're Gonna Rock

03. Tears of God

04. Will The Wolf Survive

05. Is This All There Is

06. Anselma

07. I Got To Let You Know

08. Our Last Night

09. One Time, One Night

10. My Baby's Gone

11. Come On Let's Go

12. A Matter of Time

13. The Hardest Time

14. All I Wanted To Do Was Dance

15. Why Do You Do

16. Let's Say Goodnight

17. How Much Can I Do

18. Serenata Nortena

19. Volver, Volver

20. I Got Loaded

21. Shakin' Shakin' Shakes

22. Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)

23. Don't Worry Baby

24. Prenda del Alma

25. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday

26. encore break

27. Serves Me Right To Suffer

28. 300 Pounds of Heavenly Joy/band intro

29. Mighty Old Love

30. I'm A Girl Watcher

31. La Bamba

Los Lobos - 1987-04-03 - Cincinnati, OH (Ex Aud)

1980s - #2: In the summer of 1987, the movie La Bamba was released, telling the tale of Ritchie Valens rise to stardom and tragic death, along with Buddy Holly, in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. Don McLean. Of course, immortalized that event as “the day the music died” in his classic tune, American Pie. During the movie’s closing credits, Lou Diamond Phillips, who played Valens in the movie, performed La Bamba, along with a then little known band Los Lobos. They would not be unknown for long. On June 30, 1987, their cover of La Bamba was released as a single and went to #1 on the Billboard charts. Then, just a week later, on July 7, Los Lobos released By Light of The Moon, an album of original material, whose theme focused on how and why the American dream eluded so many of the country’s working class. The disc received rave critical reviews, with Rolling Stone, All Music, and Robert Christgau, just to name 3, all singing its praises. Songs such as The Hardest Time, One Time One Night, River of Fools, Tears Of God, and The Mess We’re In, mixed rock, blues, country and tex-mex influences, with rhythms that could get you up dancing and lyrics that reached into your soul. If you don’t own it, you should. This excellemnt audience recording captures Los Lobos about 3 months before commercial and critical breakthrough, in Cincinnati, on April 3, 1987, 38 years ago today.