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Los Lobos inks new record deal, maps lengthy road trip
With the ink still drying on the band's new recording contract, Los Lobos has lined up a typically busy tour schedule that stretches throughout the remainder of the year.
The schedule includes both headlining shows and more co-billed dates with Los Lonely Boys, starting with a June 14 appearance in Avila Beach, CA. The two bands will hook up again in August for another seven shows together. Altogether, Los Lobos plan more than 50 concert appearances during the remainder of 2009. Details are included below.
The band recently signed a new record deal with Shout! Factory after recording for Hollywood Records for the past decade. "We're honored to work with Los Lobos, a band that we've all been fans of for years, and that has a rich history of unbelievable music. We're thrilled to be releasing their next project," said Garson Foos, President of Shout! Factory, in a press release.
The new album will follow the group's 2006 release, "The Town and The City," which marked the band's 13th studio album. The self-produced set broke into The Billboard 200 and landed on several critics' list as one of the Top 10 albums of 2006.
"We never really plan any album," saxophonist/keyboardist/percussionist and producer Steve Berlin said in a press statement of the band's forthcoming Shout! Factory debut. "Like with [1992's] 'Kiko' and [1996's] 'Colossal Head,' we just played the songs that showed up, naturally. With each project, we try to make our songwriting an artistic statement, where the stories we're telling and the arrangements we're composing get our point across. But to a certain extent, we make our songs opaque, mysterious. We leave it up to the listener to interpret.
"That's the highest purpose of artists, we think--not to rob the spirit out of the work."
