Los Lobos in Dallas

Dallas is one of the great cities in the U.S.  It has been a major hub for business and culture for years, and there are many different thriving scenes here that offer visitors a very splendid time.  For travelers looking for a wonderful hotel, Dallas can offer a very particularly heady mix of old-fashioned hospitality with cutting edge sensibility.  The roots of the old west are still very visible here, and the mix of Mexican and U.S. North American culture has always been particularly localized, creating hybrid form of art that speak to a global culture in a way that can’t be found in any other city.

It will be a fantastic thing, then, to see the East Los Angeles band Los Lobos playing here in March.  This is a wonderful opportunity for their long-term fans to get reacquainted with the music that they grew up on, and it’s also a chance for the new generation of fans to have their loyalty and admiration to take solid root.  Likewise, there is some hearty new music coming from the band that always locates our pulses to put them to music, with 2 new albums in the past few years.   Their Town and the City, from 2006, is a broody selection of songs, told in first-person, featuring some of the trademarks of their body of work, and the Disney album of last year introduces them to the next generation before they come of age.

Looking at their substantial history gives a new meaning to the ideas of survival and compassion.  Los Lobos began in 1973, and have achieved followings that are deep in the heart of the Mexican-American communities here, but also reach out into international arenas.  There’s something about these stories of love and endurance that speaks to a peculiar heartbreak that we are still living through.  The truly spectacular thing here is that these guys are amazing musicians.  Taking some nods from pop and jazz, they combine multiple traditional Mexican rhythms to make an art form that speaks to a powerful idea of self that resonates through the generations that acknowledge the heartache, loss, and hope.

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