Cuando tú no estás (1997) is the fourteenth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 Rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, Blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 band El Tri

El Tri

El Tri is a Mexican rock band from Mexico City fronted by Alex Lora. Founded in 1968 as Three Souls in My Mind, the group is regarded as influential in the development of Mexican rock music....

. The main single is "Virgen Morena" a hymn to the Mary Virgin with the cooperation of Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

; also in "Muchacho Chicho" renowned Mexican comedian Victor Trujillo

Víctor Trujillo

Víctor Trujillo , is a Mexican host, comedian and political commentator. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso , a green-haired, unkempt, obscene and aggressive clown ....

 gives an introduction as his main character Brozo. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 in the Best Latin Rock album category.

Track listing

All tracks by Alex Lora

Alex Lora

José Alejandro Lora Serna , better known by his stage name Alex Lora, is a Mexican musician and composer. He has been the frontman of the Spanish rock band El Tri for over 40 years...

 except were noted

1. "Virgen Morena" (Brown-Skinned Virgin) – 4:34
2. "Corretenado el Bolillo" (Chasing the bolillo) (Lora, Eduardo Toral) – 3:30
3. "Parece Fácil" (It Looks Easy) – 4:33
4. "Epidemia" (Epidemic) – 4:27
5. "Pastillas de Rocanrol" (Rock`n Roll pills) – 3:27
6. "El Ritmo Del Mundo" (The world's rhythm) – 3:25
7. "Cuando tú no Estás" (When You Aren't Here) – 4:26
8. "Copias Piratas" (Piracy Copies) – 4:10
9. "Echa Tus Broncas a la Basura" (Trow Your Problems to The Trash) – 3:15
10. "Esclavo Del Rocanrol" (Slave of Rock`n Roll) (Rodrigo Levario, Lora) – 3:14
11. "De Todos Modos Juan te Llamas" (You Are Named John Anyway) – 3:40
12. "El Muchacho Chicho" (The Neat Guy) – 5:05

Personnel

• Alex Lora – bass, vocals, producer, mixing
• Rafael Salgado – harmonic
• Eduardo Chico – guitar
• Oscar Zarate – guitar
• Chela Lora – backing vocals
• Ramon Perez – drums
• Lalo Toral – piano
• Ronnie Laws – saxophone
• Román Martínez – art direction, design
• Jorge Romero – art direction, design, photography
• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
   – guitar in "Virgen Morena"
• Ricardo Trabulsi – photography
• Victor Trujillo
  Víctor Trujillo
  Víctor Trujillo , is a Mexican host, comedian and political commentator. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso , a green-haired, unkempt, obscene and aggressive clown ....
  
   – introduction in "Muchacho Chicho"

Technical personnel

• Chuck Johnson – mixing, mixing assistant, percussion
• Richard Kaplan – engineer, mixing

External Links

• www.eltri.com.mx
• Virgen Morena at MusicBrainz
  MusicBrainz
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• [ Virgen Morena] at Allmusic