Los Lobos to perform at the Hemmens!

Los Lobos will perform at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8:00pm. Just added to the lineup is Backyard Tire Fire, opening for Los Lobos. Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $35.00 for main floor seats, and $25.00 for balcony seats. Golden Circle tickets are sold out!  Tickets may be purchased at the Hemmens Box Office, online or charge by phone at (847)931-5900.  The Hemmens is located at 45 Symphony Way in Elgin, IL. Visit www.hemmens.org/calendar/ for a complete schedule of events. www.hemmens.org

About Los Lobos:

After 34 years of making music, Los Lobos (“The Wolves”) is still churning out inventive and inspiring music. Since their first noteworthy public appearance in 1980 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles the band has toured extensively throughout the world, working with such greats such as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. In 1987, the band recorded some Ritchie Valens covers for the soundtrack to the film  La Bamba, including the title track which became a number one single for the band and one of only a few non-English songs to top the charts in the U.S. In 1995, the band released the prestigious and bestselling record “Papa’s Dream” with veteran guitarist and singer Lalo Guerrero. In recent years, the band has released its first full-length live-show DVD Live at the Fillmore in 2004, and “The Town and the City” album in 2006. “With the exception of U2, no other band has stayed on top of its game as long as Los Lobos.”  Rolling Stone Magazine

Backyard Tire Fire:

With their fifth full-length disc, Good To Be, Backyard Tire Fire have achieved one of those big-time, long-haul records that matter far more than the sum of its considerable parts—and not via grandiose, larger-than-life lyrical imagery but through blue-collar, common sense miniatures that remind us of the simple beauty present in mundane, daily, person-to-person experience—a reminder that the hard work and struggle that these times are so dead-set about avoiding are the only actual treasures, the only worthwhile endeavors that bear fruit of substance.

Based in Bloomington, Illinois, Backyard Tire Fire have worked the national circuit tirelessly, sharing stages with fellow-travelers Cracker, the Reverend Horton Heat, Govt. Mule,  Alejandro Escovedo, James McMurtry and Los Lobos.

Good To Be, which came out on February 16th on the band’s own Kelsey Street Records (distributed by Thirty Tigers/Red), was recorded in luxurious, hand-tooled analog with Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin producing. As with the previous four BTF beauties, Ed Anderson wrote all of the songs for GTB. Bearing a consistent message of empathy, humanity and hope, Good to Be is a triumph of Anderson’s own thirteen year journey as a rock and roller.
               
Like their aromatic namesake, Backyard Tire Fire have grown from a smoldering, localized slow burn to an insistent, overriding funky presence that’s spreading and refuses to be snuffed or ignored.