By the Light of the Moon by Los Lobos

By the Light of the Moon, the third album from East Los Angeles' Los Lobos, came out on Slash and Warner Bros. in 1987 with T Bone Burnett producing, the same year the band's version of "La Bamba" went to number one in America and Britain. That was the party. This one is the reckoning.

The Chicago Tribune put it in the company of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska for how squarely it stares down the American Dream going back on its promises, and the music carries that weight without going grim: Chicano rock that folds rock and roll, Tex-Mex, R&B, blues and norteño into songs with dust on their boots and worry in their pockets. "Shakin' Shakin' Shakes" and "One Time One Night" are the songs that have found their way onto the countdowns.

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