“I Got Loaded” by Los Lobos

"I Got Loaded" turned up on How Will the Wolf Survive?, the October 1984 record that gave Los Lobos their major-label debut after more than a decade of playing around Los Angeles. The song came from outside the band: Camille Bob wrote it, words and music. T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin produced it, Mark Linett recorded it and Larry Kalman Hirsch mixed it.

The album around it was the payoff for years of grinding. Their 1983 EP ...And a Time to Dance won over critics without selling much, but it earned them enough for a Dodge van and their first tour across the United States. In 1989 Rolling Stone ranked How Will the Wolf Survive? 30th among the hundred greatest albums of the decade.

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