Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of “La Bamba” became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band’s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from rockabilly to primal punk rock, R&amp;B to country and folk, Mexican son jarocho to Tex-Mex conjunto and Latin American cumbia. Their sui generis sound has sold millions of albums and won acclaim from fans and critics alike, including three Grammy Awards.
Los Lobos, the first book on this unique band, traces the entire arc of the band’s career. Music journalist Chris Morris draws on new interviews with Los Lobos members and their principal collaborators, as well as his own reporting since the early 1980s, to recount the evolution of Los Lobos’s music. He describes the creation of every album, lingering over highlights such as How Will the Wolf Survive?, La Pistola y El Corazon, and Kiko, while following the band’s trajectory from playing Mexican folk music at weddings and dances in East L.A. to international stardom and major-label success, as well as their independent work in the new millennium. Giving one of the longest-lived and most-honored American rock bands its due, Los Lobos celebrates the expansive reach and creative experimentalism that few other bands can match.

Los Lobos: Dream in Blue (American Music Series)

Arts & Photography

Morris, Chris

Music

University of Texas Press

Joe South, a young test pilot heading home from a mission, awakens in his ship to discover that he has traveled five hundred years into the future and landed on the planet Threshold, where he soon finds himself embroiled in the dangerous, deceptive, and alien world

Threshold

Literature & Fiction

Morris, Janet

United States

Roc+

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Joe South, a test pilot who has been lost for five centuries, warns the humans of the United Nations of Earth of the approach of three alien ships, and soon he finds that the aliens wish to form an alliance with the humans.

Trust Territory (Threshold)

Roc Hardcover

When three alien ships appear in orbit around the Ball, which was left in too close proximity to the Threshold Terminal, the best minds among the United Nations of Earth must decide whether to protect their people or start a war. Reprint.

In the conclusion to the "Threshold" trilogy, test pilot Joe  South meets with the Unity--a wiser, older coalition of life forms--and  learns of their plans to pit human political factions against one  another. Original.

The Stalk

A futuristic blind date throw together Dennis Cox, a mercenary on rehabilitation leave, and Paige Barnett, an executive employee of an interstellar mining concern, and the two combat a rebellion that threatens the firm's capitalistic interests

Outpassage

Random House]

Originally broadcast on Radio 4 in January 1994, this is a collection of five ten-minute interviews with Peter Cook's comic creation, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, who reminisces about his life and career as statesman, scholar and tycoon. They formed Cook's final radio series.

Why Bother? (BBC Radio Collection)

Humor & Entertainment

Cook, Peter

Humor

BBC Books

In an alternate world that appears to be Hell, Homer, the ancient Greek poet, is commanded by the Devil to write a chronicle of Hell

The Little Helliad (Baen Fantasy)

Fantasy

Baen

The world hovers on the brink of nuclear war as American intelligence officer Amy Brecker and the M.E.D.U.S.A., a powerful U.S. anti-satellite weapon, become the only chance of intercepting a Russian missile on a collision course with America's manned space lab

MEDUSA

Baen Books

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Los Lobos: Dream in Blue (American Music Series)

Threshold

Threshold

Trust Territory (Threshold)

Trust Territory (Threshold)

The Stalk

Outpassage

Why Bother? (BBC Radio Collection)

The Little Helliad (Baen Fantasy)

MEDUSA