The Ride (Los Lobos album)

The Ride
Studio album by Los Lobos
Released May 4, 2004
Genre Chicano rock
Roots rock
Tex-Mex
Length 68:08
Label Hollywood/Mammoth
Producer Los Lobos
Los Lobos chronology
Good Morning Aztlán
(2002)Good Morning Aztlán2002		 The Ride
(2004)		 Ride This - The Covers EP
(2004)Ride This - The Covers EP2004
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The Ride is the 11th album by Los Lobos. It features numerous guest musicians. The album contains new material and also new versions of earlier Los Lobos songs.[1]

Track listing

  1. "La Venganza de Los Pelados" – 4:51 (featuring Café Tacuba)
  2. "Rita" – 5:20
  3. "Is This All There Is?" – 4:43 (featuring Little Willy G.)
  4. "Charmed" – 5:00
  5. "Somewhere in Time" – 4:15 (featuring Dave Alvin)
  6. "Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street" – 8:14 (featuring Bobby Womack)
  7. "Kitate" – 3:29 (featuring Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales)
  8. "Hurry Tomorrow" – 4:33
  9. "Ya Se Va" – 4:54 (featuring Rubén Blades)
  10. "Wreck of the Carlos Rey" – 5:58 (featuring Richard Thompson)
  11. "A Matter of Time" – 2:55 (featuring Elvis Costello)
  12. "Someday" – 4:39 (featuring Mavis Staples)
  13. "Chains of Love" - 5:47

Personnel

Instrumentation is unspecified on the album, but this is the usual:

Additional musicians:

  • Cougar Estrada - drums and percussion on all tracks
  • Victor Bisetti - additional percussion

Café Tacuba

  • Elfego Buendia - vocals (1)
  • Alejandro Flores - quinta guapanguera, requinto (1)
  • Emmanuel de Real - jarana, keyboards (1)
  • Joselo Rangel - electric guitar (1)
  • Garth Hudson - keyboards (1, 11, 13)

Additional:

  • Mitchell Froom - keyboards (2)
  • Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar (2, 5, 11)
  • Rev. Charles Williams - piano (6), organ (6), clavinet (12)
  • Francisco Torres - trombone (7)
  • Alberto Salas - piano (9)
  • Lonnie Jordan - B-3 (12)

Billboard charts

ChartPeak
The Billboard 20075

References

  1. ↑ Chris Morris Los Lobos: Dream in Blue 2015 -029274823X Page 139 "Relaxed and brimming with warmth and a real sense of fun, The Ride was the most direct and purely entertaining music from Los Lobos since the band's earliest Slash recordings. Much of the album's charm emanates from the Lobos' ..
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