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Hey Chris...any bonus tracks on that LLB CD from Best Buy?  I heard that Sony was distributing different CDs to several different retailers, each with different bonus tracks.  Supposedly the Walmart "Sacred" CDs have a track of JoJo doing a piano solo and Target's has 4 bonus tracks from a show at the Fillmore.

To my knowledge, Best Buy has no extras on it. I will say that Los Lonely Boys released their independent album (on their first recording), then re-released it, then repackaged it again with a short DVD, plus they had a live album, and a DVD, so the multiples in no way would surprise me.

I refuse to buy more than one copy this time around.

Nothin But Love,
Chris

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Sunshine, that's the nice thing about the blues rock community - we don't expect anyone to play like Joe! And seriously, the best thing about a lot of diversity in this particular genre is the many different styles we get to experience.

Los Lonely Boys played a short 45 min set in the Wal-Mart Parking lot in Addison, TX this afternoon and they were really good.  Here's a short clip from the show:  Los Lonely Boys Clip    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rae3bZAuLC8
It's pretty shaky since I was zoomed in...sorry.
The sound was outstanding.  Henry only threw out one pick, the one he was using.  My son and I were standing in front of the soundboard about 40 feet out from the stage.  Henry threw it knife-edged and I saw it hit the ground among a crowd of people 25 ft out.  I was amazed that it didn't hit anyone and it bounced another 15 ft and landed right between my sons shoes.  I still had to dive for it to beat out someone else that was going for it.  It was close but I got it...lol.

Never got into these guys.  Seemed like everything they did had already been done better by Los Lobos !  I think MTV just latched onto these guys because the lead singer is "camera friendly", and they were riding the whole Santana craze. Great marketing, I'll give them that !

I much prefer "Mana", which was another Santana project.

MTV didn't latch onto them. VH1 did. MTV never I don't think has even mentioned them. Plus, they came out after the Santana thing had played out. Heaven just came out of left field, there really was no trend to be followed. They deserve more credit then they were riding a wave. I think they just appeal to a criss-cross of genres. Blues guys like Henry's playing (not as much as Joe), singing fans love the harmonies, pop fans dig the hooks, country fans dig the slight bit of country flavor they add, latin people dig the Spanglish and some of the latin and conjunto rhythms. They just have a really broad demographic.

They definitely are showmen and know how to put on a great show..  Nice to see guys from my hometown doing so well.

Yep, they look like the real deal to me..........if I'm not mistaken this "misunderstanding" has happened several times before.........thanks google.

July 24, 2006, 8:58AM
Arrest of Lonely Boys bassist called a misunderstanding

Associated Press

AUSTIN — The arrest of the bassist for Los Lonely Boys on allegations he assaulted his fiancee was all a misunderstanding, the band's publicist said today.

Police arrested Joey "JoJo" Sacarais Garza, 26, at an Austin hotel Saturday on charges of assault causing bodily injury and possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, authorities said. Garza was released on bond from Travis County Jail at 5 p.m. Saturday.

"This is simply a misunderstanding. We were being too loud," Garza's fiancee, Carina Lyn, said through the publicist. "We apologize to the hotel guests. JoJo and I are very much in love and we are planning to be married."

Garza, Lyn and Garza's sibling-bandmates were in town celebrating last week's release of the band's new album, Sacred, when another hotel guest reported a disturbance, publicist Diana Baron said.

Police said they arrived about 10 a.m. and found a woman who had been assaulted. They also found marijuana, said Austin police spokeswoman Laura Albrecht.

Baron declined to comment on the marijuana charge but said Lyn was unharmed and had protested the arrest.

The Austin police erred on the side of caution, but their actions were "completely unnecessary," Garza's attorney, Charlie Roadman, said in the release.

Austin police spokeswoman Ruth Bullock said investigators will pass on a report to the Travis County District Attorney's Office, which will decide whether to press formal charges. In cases of family violence, alleged victims cannot drop charges, she said.

She disputed the band's account of the incident.

"We can only arrest if visible injury or complaint of pain is there, so undoubtedly the officers saw that," she said.

The band of brothers from San Angelo won a Grammy in 2005 for their Tex-Mex rock, and their self-titled debut two years ago went double platinum. They are in the midst of a promotional tour.