PopMatters Review
PopMatters writes a great review on Rockpango. Check out the article for details!
PopMatters writes a great review on Rockpango. Check out the article for details!
Happy Release Day! Rockpango is here!
Get a big serving of Henry Garza’s “fiery fretwork” (Austin American Statesman) and the brothers’ “flawless vocals” (Austin Chronicle) on what critics are calling the band’s best album since their multi-platinum, Grammy-winning debut.
Click here to order Rockpango, or click here for Rockpango Deluxe Edition.
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You can also head to your local Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Newbury Comics, (or pretty much anywhere great music is sold)…to rock out Texican Style.
Los Lonely Boys will perform this Monday, March 28th on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC!
“The boys tight, three-part harmonies really shine in the extra sonic space left open by the acoustic renditions,” writes Premier Guitar magazine in their November 2010 Edition, available here.
“Henry Garza can still burn without his Texas Special-loaded Strats, and he isn’t afraid to let the world hear him do so in a very different way.”
Thanks to Premier Guitar for the great review!
Well it’s Friday night, I’m gonna have some fun tonight
Well it’s Friday night, I’m gonna have some fun tonight
I’m gonna do everything, gonna make it outta sight
Well I throw on my zoot suit, m’ Stacy Adams too
Oh, I throw on my zoot suit, m’ Stacy Adams too
I’ll be wearing my silver chain, lookin’ oh-so-cool
Well I’m off in my 1950 Mercury
Whoa I’m off in my 1950 Mercury
I’m gonna cruise around town ’til I find a girl for me
’cause it’s Friday night, I’m gonna have some fun tonight
Well it’s Friday night, I’m gonna have some fun tonight (ha ha ha)
I’m gonna do everything, gonna make it outta sight
And I throw on my zoot suit, m’ Stacy Adams too
Oh, I throw on my zoot suit, m’ Stacy Adams too
I’ll be wearing my silver chain, lookin’ oh-so-cool
One more time, Henry!
Aw, bring it down, Ringo!
Well I’m off in my 1950 Mercury
Whoa I’m off in my 1950 Mercury
I’m gonna cruise around town ’til I find a girl
Cruise around town ’til I find a girl
Cruise around town ’til I find a girl for me!
Album: Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live
Released: 9/28/2010
Track: 6
Said “Hello” now baby
Get off of your feet
And just kiss me darlin’ babe
And make it long and sweet
‘Cuz I tell you baby
I am the man to beat yeah
I wanna hold you closer
Yeah hold you close to me
Just let me love you
Baby now darlin’ yeah
Make it long and sweet yeah
‘Cuz I tell you baby
I am the man to beat
I wanna hold you close now
Yeah hold you close to me
Just let me love you baby now
Darlin’ let’s make it short and sweet this time
‘Cuz I tell you baby
I am the man to beat
Album: Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live
Released: 9/28/2010
Track: 11
Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I’m not too blind to see
I’ll never be your beast of burden
So let’s go home and draw the curtains
Music on the radio
Come on baby make sweet love to me
Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I’m not too blind to see
Oh little sister
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl
You’re a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Pretty, pretty
Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Come on baby please, please, please
I’ll tell ya
You can put me out
On the street
Put me out
With no shoes on my feet
But, put me out, put me out
Put me out of misery
Yeah, all your sickness
I can suck it up
Throw it all at me
I can shrug it off
There’s one thing baby
That I don’t understand
You keep on telling me
I ain’t your kind of man
Ain’t I rough enough, ooh baby
Ain’t I tough enough
Ain’t I rich enough, in love enough
Ooh! Ooh! Please
I’ll never be your beast of burden
I’ll never be your beast of burden
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be
I don’t need no beast of burden
I need no fussing
I need no nursing
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be
Album: Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live
Released: 9/28/2010
Track: 12
After coming home last year from performing to the troops in Iraq and Kuwait, The Pentagon Channel interviews the boys about their experiences. Check out it:
Los Lonely Boys teamed up with Austin-based Community Tech-Knowledge for their “Heart and Soul” grant to develop a song for one deserving non-profit organization, as you read this summer in “LLB team up with CTK for the Heart and Soul Grant”.
“Solid Ground,” is a tribute to the Family Justice Center of Erie County, an organization that provides services for victims of domestic violence. A song of hope, the lyrics to the soulful but upbeat tune were chosen from among roughly 750 contest entries.
My spirit is unbroken, though my body bears a scar.
Sometimes, I swear I doubted I would ever get this far.
The poem was one the band could identify with, said Jim Tulio, who produced the song and served as one of the contest judges.
“The sentiment of it, I think, their music and their lyrics have a very similar vibe in terms of hope,” he said. “And I think they feel the same things. They’ve been through a lot of hardships in their lives. I think they can really relate to this.”
The song’s local unveiling will take place Tuesday in front of some donors and other friends of the Family Justice Center at the American Red Cross headquarters on Delaware Avenue.
The center’s involvement is the end result of the 2009 Heart and Soul Grant Award Program, developed by the Texas-based CTK Foundation. The foundation sent out a nationwide call for entries to nonprofit agencies, asking them to send in a four-to-eight line poem about the mission of their organization.
The winner would have their song produced by Los Lonely Boys and be accompanied by a $10,000 grant. Of the hundreds of entries, one poem was chosen by a Grammy-award winning panel of judges.
Nancy Ghoston, a quality assurance coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Western New York, e-mailed the agency her poem after reading an e-mail soliciting poems from friends of the organization.
Ghoston, who hasn’t written much poetry since high school, said she was inspired to write this one because of family and friends she cared about who never had a place like the Family Justice Center to turn to when they were victims of abuse.
The Kenmore woman went on a tour of the center at 237 Main St. earlier in the year and was astonished at how warm and welcoming the facility is, she said.
A huge mural lines the entry hall and inside, the secure center projects a comfortable, home-like environment, complete with four cozy “living rooms” where victims and their families can meet with law enforcement and social services personnel and other victim advocates. There’s even a space for children, filled with toys and books, rivaling any day care center.
On the double doors leading into the main area, beneath the name of the agency, reads a single sentence: “You’re safe here.”
“What it would be like to walk through those doors and be greeted in that way, and just feel like it was a very safe place to be,” said Ghoston, who dwelled on the thought when she wrote her poem. “So many social services agencies are poorly funded, they’re on a shoe string, and they’re kind of depressing no matter how kind the staff is. I was just astounded, I really was.”
While Ghoston declined to fly to Texas for the premiere of the song on Saturday at the Austin Museum of Art, Linda Ray, executive director of the Family Justice Center, did go with another agency volunteer.
When Ray first heard Los Lonely Boys play the song at the live event, she cried.
“The words are so sweet,” she said. “When I was listening to it, I could picture the women in our waiting room.”
The song will be played at every Family Justice Center event and shared with the roughly 50 Family Justice Centers that now exist coast to coast, Ray said. The $10,000 will go toward helping to market the agency, which has very few dollars to spend on such priorities, she said.
Los Lonely Boys had originally created the song as a do-good effort, with no plans to launch it as a single. However, Ray said, the band ended up liking the song so much that the three brothers are considering marketing the song nationwide.
One of the band members, Henry Garza, said the song was “a way to express our music through someone else’s feelings and show what song and music is about, somebody’s tragic life experience put down on paper. It’s a beautiful thing to be part of that. And for us to be a part of that and to bring this woman’s poem to life with the song, it’s just an honor.”
Read the inspirational story about the woman behind the lyrics and see behind the scenes footage of the recording here.