Gates of Gold

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Gates of Gold
Gates of Gold (Los Lobos album).jpg
Studio album by
Los Lobos
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2015 (2015-09-25)
StudioBlue Velvet Studio, Santa Ana, California
Blue Cat Studios, San Antonio, Texas
Playground Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Milagro Studios, Walnut, California
Native Sound Recording, St. Louis, Missouri
Revolution Recording, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre Chicano rock
Roots rock
Americana
Tex-Mex
Latin rock
Length42:44
Label 429 Records
Proper Records (Europe)
Producer Los Lobos
Los Lobos chronology
Disconnected in New York City
(2013)		Gates of Gold
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Absolute Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
CL Tampa Bay Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Elmore Magazine 91/100 [5]
Glide Magazine9/10 [6]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Gates of Gold is the fifteenth studio album by the American rock band Los Lobos, released in September 2015. It was released worldwide through 429 Records and in Europe through Proper Records. It is the band's first full-length studio album since 2010's Tin Can Trust . [8] [9] [10]

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Los Lobos American Chicano rock band

Los Lobos is an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. The band gained international stardom in 1987, when their cover version of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" topped the charts in the U.S., the UK and several other countries. In 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2018, they were inducted into Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez, except where noted.

David Hidalgo American musician

David Kent Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. In 1973, Hidalgo was one of the founding members of Los Lobos, for which he wrote most songs together with Louie Pérez. Otherwise, he also participated as a guest musician on albums of other artists, including David Alvin, Buckwheat Zydeco, Paul Burlison, T-Bone Burnett, Peter Case, Toni Childs, Marc Cohn, Ry Cooder, Elvis Costello, Crowded House, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Lee Hooker, Rickie Lee Jones, Leo Kottke, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Pierce Pettis, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Taj Mahal, Suzanne Vega, Bob Dylan und Tom Waits. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project made up of some of the members of Los Lobos. With Mike Halby of Canned Heat, he formed another band, Houndog, as a side project. He also appeared on national television in the U.S., backing Tom Waits.

Louie Pérez American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist

Louis Frausto Pérez, Jr. is an American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist for Los Lobos and Latin Playboys.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Made to Break Your Heart" 4:44
2."When We Were Free" 5:09
3."Mis-Treater Boogie Blues" Cesar Rosas 3:09
4."There I Go" 3:15
5."Too Small Heart" 3:51
6."Poquito Para Aqui"Rosas3:54
7."Gates of Gold" 3:50
8."La Tumba Sera el Final"Francisco Vidal2:38
9."Song of the Sun" 3:40
10."I Believed You So"Rosas4:23
11."Magdalena" 4:11

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [11]

Los Lobos

Cesar Rosas American musician

Cesar J. Rosas is a singer, songwriter and guitarist for Los Lobos. Rosas also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven. Perhaps the most recognizable member of Los Lobos, Rosas is known for his trademark black sunglasses, goatee and black hair.

Conrad Lozano American musician

Conrad R. Lozano is an American musician and the bass player for Los Lobos.

Steven M. Berlin is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, the Blasters, and the Flesh Eaters. Berlin is married and lives with his wife and children in Portland, Oregon. Berlin joined the band Tuatara as a side project in 1998 on their second album, Trading with the Enemy. Berlin is Jewish.

Additional musicians

David Hidalgo Jr. American musician

David Hidalgo Jr. is an American drummer currently playing in Social Distortion. Hidalgo replaced former drummer Scott Reeder, who had been busy with his main project Fu Manchu. Prior to joining Social Distortion, he played drums in The Drips and Suicidal Tendencies. He also plays drums for The Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx and the hardcore punk band Bullet Treatment with a variety of lineups that also included members of Rise Against, The Bronx, Cancer Bats, Anti-Flag and others. David also toured with Brody Dalle in her Spinnerette and self-titled projects. He has recorded and toured with Chuck Ragan and Dave Hause. Most recently, Dave recorded on Greg Graffin's new solo record. He is the son of David Hidalgo, guitarist and singer of Los Lobos.

Syd Straw American singer

Syd Straw is an American rock singer and songwriter. The daughter of actor Jack Straw, she began her career singing backup for Pat Benatar, then took her distinct voice to the indie/alternative scene and joined the Golden Palominos. She released her first album, Surprise, in 1989; it featured contributions by Stipe, Fier, Richard Thompson, Jody Harris, Peter Blegvad, and a number of other well-known musicians. A second album, War and Peace, appeared in 1996. Recorded with a relatively obscure Midwest rock group called the Skeletons, it chronicled a brief and unhappy romance. In 2008, she released a new album, entitled Pink Velour, on her own label, Earnester Records. According to an earlier interview, the title track “is about my family moving back and forth between the east and the west, and my being kidnapped by my mother on Valentine's Day in 1969, and about not seeing my dad for almost seven years.”

Marcos J. Reyes Percussionist with the band War

Marcos Reyes ~ Marcos J. Reyes, born in 1960 in Bakersfield, California to parents from Chihuahua, Mexico, has been the Latin percussionist for WAR since 1998. At the age of severteen Marcos was turned on to the music of WAR, Santana, El Chicano, MALO, Latin Jazz and Salsa.

Technical

Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant and business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio. In 1989, Bolas founded Fakespace Music with Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall and Christian Greuel, which, in 1995, developed the Soundsculpt Toolkit, a software interface that allows music to communicate with the graphical elements of virtual reality.

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