Los Lobos, The Ride - 1h 4m 44s

Tracks & Durations

1. La Venganza De Los Pelados	4:51
2. Rita	5:20
3. Is This All There Is?	4:43
4. Charmed	5:00
5. Somewhere In Time	4:15
6. Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street	8:14
7. Kitate	3:29
8. Hurry Tomorrow	4:33
9. Ya Se Va	4:54
10. Wreck Of The Carlos Rey	5:58
11. Matter Of Time	2:55
12. Someday	4:38
13. Chains Of Love	5:46

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Review

After hitting a creative peak in the early '90s, Los Lobos settled into a decade-long groove that was perhaps a little too comfortable. The band's twelfth studio CD, The Ride, tries to shake things up a bit, and mostly succeeds by pairing the group with a string of collaborators similar to Carlos Santana's Supernatural. Only instead of the young hit-makers that propelled Santana's comeback, The Ride matches Los Lobos with early influences (Bobby Womack, Little Willie G) and long-time friends (Dave Alvin, Elvis Costello).

The experimentalism that fueled 1992's Kiko can be found here on a couple of tracks--most notably "Kitate," a deliriously wiggy collaboration with Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales of Quetzal--but generally the focus is on blues, soul, and roots rock. Surprisingly, some of the strongest performances are new versions of songs previously recorded by Lobos: Costello helps the band re-invent "Matter of Time" as a piano and pedal-steel guitar ballad; Mavis Staples turns the folk-blues lament of "Someday" into rousing Stax soul/gospel; and Womack segues effortlessly from "Wicked Rain" into his '70s blaxploitation classic, "Across 110th Street." Of the newer material, the band shines brightest on "La Venganza de Los Pelados," a Latin dance workout with Café Tacuba, and the bluesy soul of "Chains of Love," which shreds 12-bar formula by including a 90-second violin solo. The latter is a tribute to '50s rock & rollers Don and Dewey, proving that the best road to the future is sometimes paved by revisiting the distant past. --Keith Moerer

Other Versions

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The Ride

Tracks: 14 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 4m 46s (+0m 2s)

The Ride

Tracks: 15 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 7m 40s (+2m 56s)

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