Los Lobos "Tin Can Trust"

Everybody needs a Los Lobos record in their collection, and I don't mean La Bamba.  It was destiny that I picked this up.  I happened to be rooting through the "K" and "L" shelf of the Top 500 and ran across their 2002 release "Good Morning Aztlan".  Thought I would play the bonus enhanced CD for kicks.  A few days later on the satellite station, up pops one of that album's tracks.  Next thing you know, they are playing the AARP Convention here in town (certainly upping the coolness factor).  So I took all the hints and added this to the vault.  I'd have to go to the file to be sure, but I believe this is my third Lobos record out of their fourteen or so, and I also have one of the side project Latin Playboys CD's.  One of the members, Steve Berlin, will be on many albums you own from the last twenty years as a session man or producer, such as R.E.M., Paul Simon, Dixie Chicks, Gregg Allman, the Tragically Hip, etc..  In the mid-80's, The Lobos were big buddies with T-Bone Burnett, so having him as a friend and producer says mucho about their studio prowess.  All of their albums are sonic studio precision, blending rock, blues, R&B, and Latin inspirations into topical, traditional, or even Disney tunes!  There wouldn't be a Los Lonely Boys without Los Lobos... 
"Tin Can" is a typical LL album as described earlier.  A variety of story lines based in our economic funk, tucked into the standard aural stew, punctuated by dual guitars...perfection in headphones.  You don't get invited to play Clapton's Crossroads concert unless you're a top notch axe wielder.  And if you didn't know better, you'd think Steve Winwood was guest vocalizing on a couple of tracks.  I found this live video of the title track.  Now that's the kind of live setting the Ol' Mad Rocker likes!