The Three Best Los Lobos Songs

[Funny. This was originally posted about a year ago. The situation is almost the same a year later. The company that made the purchased moved us into a new building; I moved my family back to our old house. So, a year later everything is still in disarray. Hmmm...there's no straightening-up life, I guess. F45,  September 2, 2010]

The radio station where I work was sold to another company on Friday. That’s fine with me — like I had any say over the matter, anyway, right? — but I can live without the meetings. And I moved to a new house the same day.

Hence my absence for the past few weeks and, with my studio barely set up, I have little time to be writing this, late in the evening at that.

But I miss being here, so here’s a bit on Los Lobos. I’ve seen them play a few times and their shows have ranged from transcendent to too freekin’ loud. I prefer transcendent.

One Time One Night is such a beautiful story song, it needs no further justification. Saint Behind The Glass so beautifully evokes the dark quiet Roman Catholic Hispanic households that smell of incense and spicy food and The Neighborhood has that great sound that Mitchell Froom brought to the Wolves.

They are the three best songs by Los Lobos.