Los Lonely Boys
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Los Lonely Boys is a Chicano rock
Chicano rock
Chicano rock is rock music performed by Mexican American groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture. Chicano Rock, to a great extent, does not refer to any single style or approach. Some of these groups do not sing in Spanish at all, or use many specifically Latin instruments or sounds...

 power trio
Power trio
A power trio is a rock and roll band format where the traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard that are used in other rock music to fill out the sound with chords...

 from San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200...

. They play a style of music they call "Texican Rock n' Roll," combining elements of rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

, Texas blues
Texas blues
Texas blues is a subgenre of blues. It has had various style variations but typically has been played with more swing than other blues styles....

, brown eyed soul, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

, and Tejano
Tejano music
Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas...

.

The band consists of three brothers: Henry (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

), Jojo (bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, vocals), and Ringo (drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

, vocals) Garza. They follow the tradition of their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., who formed a band with his brothers called the Falcones. The Falcones played conjunto
Conjunto
Conjunto literally translates as "group," and is regionally accepted in Texas as defining a genre of music that was born out of south Texas at the end of the 19th Century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion. The bajo sexto has come to accompany the button accordion and is...

 music in southern Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 during the 1970s and 1980s. To date, Los Lonely Boys have released three studio albums and a live album, all on the Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

 label. Their debut single, "Heaven
Heaven (Los Lonely Boys song)
"Heaven" is the title of a popular song from 2004 by the American Tex-Mex/Chicano rock band Los Lonely Boys. The song was written by brothers Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza, who comprise the foundation of the band, and it appears on their multi-platinum self-titled album.-Reception:Released as a...

," was a number one hit on the Billboard adult contemporary chart
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...

 and reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in 2004.

Musical career

The three brothers emerged as a group in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 in the 1990s. After moving back to their home state of Texas they recorded an album in 2003 in Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 at Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

's Pedernales recording studio. The album was initially released by Or Music and later acquired by Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

 for distribution in March 2004.

The group's first single, "Heaven", reached No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, also crossing over even to the Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart, where it peaked at No. 46. "Heaven" was featured in Guitar Hero: On Tour. In 2005 the song won a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals was awarded between 1966 and 2011...

. Other songs nominated for Grammys include "More Than Love" and "Onda," both in 2006.

In 2005, the group recorded "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" with 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...

 for the Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

 album All That I Am. Their 2006 album, Sacred, features the song "Outlaws". In a "closing of the circle," Enrique Garza Sr. sings the verse about the "missing outlaws, just like me." Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

, who is credited on the 2004 album, also provides a verse which makes reference to his hit "On the Road Again
On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)
"On the Road Again" is a song made famous by country music singer Willie Nelson, and is part of the soundtrack to the 1980 movie Honeysuckle Rose....

".

In 2007, Los Lonely Boys participated in Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

's "Make Some Noise" project. Their cover of John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

's "Whatever Gets You thru the Night
Whatever Gets You thru the Night
"Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1974 on Apple Records, catalogue Apple 1874 in the United States and Apple R5998 in the United Kingdom. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #36 on the British singles chart...

" is the second single from the "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur is a compilation album of various artists covering songs of John Lennon to benefit Amnesty International's campaign to alleviate the crisis in Darfur...

." The song was released on iTunes
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 on April 17, with the entire album available on June 12 courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" is noteworthy as John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

's only US number one solo single while he was alive.

Their third studio album, Forgiven
Forgiven (Los Lonely Boys album)
Forgiven was released on July 1, 2008. It is the Los Lonely Boys' fifth album and their third studio set.The album sticks to their fuller sound, which was showcased in their previous album, Sacred, and is primarily blues based.-Track listing:...

, was released on July 1, 2008. The album was recorded at East Side Stages in Austin and was produced by Steve Jordan
Steve Jordan (musician)
Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...

. On October 23, 2008, Los Lonely Boys sang the national anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...

 to open game two of the 2008 World Series
2008 World Series
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 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In March 2009, Los Lonely Boys left Sony/Epic and signed on with Austin-based Playing In Traffic Records
Playing In Traffic Records
Playing in Traffic Records is an American record label based in Austin, Texas.- History :Founded in 2009 by longtime Texas music executive Kevin Wommack as a division of Loophole Entertainment, Playing in Traffic Records mission is to bring emerging and established talent to a national stage...

. In March 2010, the group was awarded "Best Rock Band" in the Austin Music Awards.

The trio released a tribute EP titled 1969 on October 13, 2009, paying homage to the 40th anniversary of the titular year with covers of Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

's "Evil Ways
Evil Ways
"Evil Ways" is a song by Santana from their 1969 album Santana. It was written by Clarence "Sonny" Henry and recorded by jazz percussionist Willie Bobo in 1968 on his album of the same name. The song is in simple verse form...

", The Doors
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

' "Roadhouse Blues
Roadhouse Blues
"Roadhouse Blues" is a blues-rock song written and recorded by the American rock band The Doors. The song, which appeared on the B-side of "You Make Me Real", was first released as a single from the album Morrison Hotel in March 1970 and peaked at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...

", Blind Faith
Blind Faith
Blind Faith were an English blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969...

's "Well All Right", The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

' "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is a song written by Paul McCartney and performed by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road as part of the Abbey Road medley.-Origin:...

", and Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989...

's "Polk Salad Annie." The EP was produced by Andy Johns and marked the first release on their new label.
Los Lonely Boys' yet-to-be-titled fourth studio album was originally slated to be released in fall 2010. However, due to bassist Jojo Garza's vocal cord injury, the album has been pushed back. The band also had to cancel a handful of tour dates in late April and early May, but has since resumed the tour.

Following their 2009-10 tour, which included roughly 200 shows seen by over 350,000 fans, Los Lonely Boys headed back to the studio to complete their fourth full-length studio. It was announced on Jan. 14, 2011 that the new album, entitled "Rockpango" (a Spanglish
Spanglish
.Spanglish refers to the blend of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The Hispanic population of the United States and the British population in Argentina use varieties of...

 word that means "rock party"), would be released on March 29. "Rockpango," which features 11 original tracks, will mark the first full-length studio album released by the band on their LonelyTone imprint for Playing in Traffic Records. A deluxe edition of the album will include three bonus songs, a behind-the-scenes video and a fold-out poster of the cover art.

Members

  • Henry Garza (b. 15 May 1978) vocals, guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Jojo Garza (b. 4 June 1980) bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
  • Ringo Garza (b. 29 November 1981) drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , vocals

Supporting Musicians

  • Reese Wynans (2004) organ, keyboards, piano
  • Michael Ramos (2006) organ, keyboards, piano, vocals
  • Carmelo Torres (2008, 2009) percussion

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
Music recording sales certification
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(sales threshold)
US
Billboard 200
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US Rock US Heat
Top Heatseekers
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US Indie
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1997 Los Lonely Boys
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: self-released
1998 Teenage Blues
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: self-released
2004 Los Lonely Boys
Los Lonely Boys (album)
Los Lonely Boys is the eponymous debut album by the American rock trio Los Lonely Boys, released on March 30, 2004 by Epic Records. It features their breakthrough single "Heaven", a number one hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts...


  • Released: March 30, 2004
  • Label: Epic Records
    Epic Records
    Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

9 1 4
  • US: 2× Multi-Platinum
  • 2006 Sacred
    • Released: July 18, 2006
    • Label: Epic Records
    2 1
    2008 Forgiven
    Forgiven (Los Lonely Boys album)
    Forgiven was released on July 1, 2008. It is the Los Lonely Boys' fifth album and their third studio set.The album sticks to their fuller sound, which was showcased in their previous album, Sacred, and is primarily blues based.-Track listing:...


    • Released: July 1, 2008
    • Label: Epic Records
    26 13
    2009 1969
    • Released: October 13, 2009
    • Label: Playing In Traffic Records
      Playing In Traffic Records
      Playing in Traffic Records is an American record label based in Austin, Texas.- History :Founded in 2009 by longtime Texas music executive Kevin Wommack as a division of Loophole Entertainment, Playing in Traffic Records mission is to bring emerging and established talent to a national stage...

       / Lonely Tone Records
    124 15
    2011 Rockpango
    • Released: March 29, 2011
    • Label: Playing In Traffic Records
      Playing In Traffic Records
      Playing in Traffic Records is an American record label based in Austin, Texas.- History :Founded in 2009 by longtime Texas music executive Kevin Wommack as a division of Loophole Entertainment, Playing in Traffic Records mission is to bring emerging and established talent to a national stage...

       / Lonely Tone Records
    70 19 14
    "—" denotes releases that did not chart

    Live albums

    Year Album details Peak positions
    US
    2005 Live at the Fillmore
    Live at the Fillmore (Los Lonely Boys album)
    Live at the Fillmore is an album released by Los Lonely Boys in 2005. It was recorded live on October 23, 2004, at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California.-Track listing:# "Crazy Dream" # "Hollywood" # "Man To Beat"...


    • Released: February 22, 2005
    • Label: Epic Records
    69
    2006 Live at Blue Cat Blues
    Live at Blue Cat Blues
    Live At Blue Cat Blues is an album by Los Lonely Boys that was recorded in November 2000 at Blue Cat Blues in Dallas, Texas. It was officially released in 2006. There are several different versions, with a different track order, and in some cases, more or less tracks than listed below; the track...


    • Released: February 14, 2006
    • Label: Blue Cat Blues
    "—" denotes releases that did not chart

    Holiday albums

    Year Album details Peak positions
    US Holiday
    2008 Christmas Spirit
    • Released: October 14, 2008
    • Label: Epic Records
    40

    Compilation albums

    Year Album details
    2009 Playlist: The Very Best of Los Lonely Boys
    • Released: June 30, 2009
    • Label: Epic Records

    Singles

    Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
    Music recording sales certification
    Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...


    (sales threshold)
    Album
    US
    Billboard Hot 100
    The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...


    US AC
    US Adult
    US Country
    Hot Country Songs
    Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...


    US
    Pop
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    NZ
    2003 "Real Emotions"[A] Los Lonely Boys
    2004 "Heaven
    Heaven (Los Lonely Boys song)
    "Heaven" is the title of a popular song from 2004 by the American Tex-Mex/Chicano rock band Los Lonely Boys. The song was written by brothers Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza, who comprise the foundation of the band, and it appears on their multi-platinum self-titled album.-Reception:Released as a...

    "
    16 1 2 46 11 26
    • US
      Recording Industry Association of America
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      : Gold
    "More Than Love" 31 15
    2005 "Diamonds" 28 26 Sacred
    2008 "Staying with Me" Forgiven
    2011 "Fly Away" Rockpango
    "16 Monkeys"
    "—" denotes releases that did not chart

    Music videos

    Year Video Director
    2004 "Heaven" Rosalyn Rosen
    "More Than Love"
    2006 "Diamonds"

    DVDs

    • Texican Style
      Texican Style: Live from Austin (Los Lonely Boys DVD)
      Texican Style: Live from Austin was recorded in March 2004 at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin, Texas. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people filled the park that night to hear Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza perform live. While many of these songs are on the 2003 album, "I Am The Man To...

      (2004) (Platinum)
    • Los Lonely Boys: Live at the Filmore (2004)
    • Cottonfields and Crossroads
      Cottonfields and Crossroads (Los Lonely Boys DVD)
      Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads is a documentary feature film by independent filmmaker Hector Galán. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film and Music Festival in Austin, Texas in the United States, in 2006...

      (2007)

    Other contributions

    • Eklektikos Live (2005) - "Velvet Sky"
    • Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
      Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
      Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur is a compilation album of various artists covering songs of John Lennon to benefit Amnesty International's campaign to alleviate the crisis in Darfur...

      (2007, Warner Bros.
      Warner Bros. Records
      Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

      ) - "Whatever Gets You thru the Night
      Whatever Gets You thru the Night
      "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1974 on Apple Records, catalogue Apple 1874 in the United States and Apple R5998 in the United Kingdom. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #36 on the British singles chart...

      "

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