Forty-eight years into their career, Los Lobos deliver a love letter to the East Los Angeles music scene that raised them—and the covers album they've been threatening to make since their garage band days. Native Sons surveys the sounds that shaped them, from Chicano rock pioneers like Thee Midniters and The Premiers to the diverse influences of Jackson Browne, Buffalo Springfield, and the Beach Boys. This New West exclusive brown vinyl pressing honors the earth tones of the barrio that birthed them.

David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, and Steve Berlin bring five decades of musical conversation to interpretations that honor the originals while making them unmistakably Los Lobos. Their version of Love Special Delivery's Love Special Delivery transforms a rare groove obscurity into a showcase for Hidalgo's accordion and Berlin's saxophone, while readings of Thee Midniters' The Town I Live In and The Premiers' Farmer John ground the album in the specific history of Mexican-American rock and roll.

Los Lobos have always operated at the intersection of rock, blues, Tex-Mex, and traditional Mexican music, and Native Sons reveals the breadth of influences that made their synthesis possible. For crate diggers and roots music enthusiasts, this is an essential guide to overlooked American music history.

2-LP Brown Vinyl. New West Records Exclusive. Grammy-winning veterans cover their East LA influences. Limited color pressing.