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Chris Morris’s Followers (2)
Chris Morris
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Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
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published
2015
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5 editions
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Together Through Life: A Personal Journey With the Music of Bob Dylan
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Beyond and Back: The Story of X
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published
1983
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2 editions
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Together Through Life
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2016
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2 editions
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“Trio Los Panchos and listened to the requinto player, we said, ‘Shit, this guy”
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
“The band could not have known that the Alvin brothers were already well aware of Los Lobos, and had been for more than five years, for they had seen the band’s TV debut on La Cultura in 1975. “The first time we had ever heard of them,” says Dave Alvin, “Phil and I were at home, and we watched a thing on the local PBS station, channel 28. It was a half-hour documentary on this band from East L.A. that played traditional acoustic Mexican music from all of the various states.” Phil Alvin adds that the Lobos’ example in fact had an impact on the genre-defying way in which the Blasters conceived of their own music: “I remember watching it and really being just impressed, particularly about the way they talked about Mexican music and the variety of it. When we went down to Rockin’ Ronnie’s and he kept pressuring us to say we played rockabilly and stuff like that, I remember thinking of those guys when I [told him]”
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
“Thus it was probably inevitable that Los Lobos would approach the members of the Blasters and attempt to get their music to the more established band. Memories of their first meeting have dimmed over time: both the Alvins recall it taking place backstage after a show they played at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, while the Lobos remember it as happening at a date somewhere in the San Fernando Valley, possibly at the Country Club in Reseda. Rosas says, “At the end of the show, Dave and Louie were walking out to the car in the parking lot, and Phil Alvin was walking right there next to them. Their cars weren’t that far from each other. Everybody looked at each other. And I guess Dave and Louie said, ‘Hey, man, we’re fans. You guys were great tonight.’ Then Phil does a double take. He says, ‘Hey, where do I know you guys from? . . . Did you guys do a documentary or something?’ You know how Phil is—he’s a walking library. So Dave and Louie go, ‘Yeah, we did do a documentary, way back, some years ago.’ That’s how the connection got made, right there.”
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
― Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
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