Sneak Peek: Louie Perez Podcast

Jo Reed: And if you had to think of a through line for Los Lobos as its approaching its half century mark, what do you think that through line would be?

Louie Pérez: Wow, the through line. I would say--not in a complete sentence--I think there's community. There's family. There's love. There’s tradition. There's culture. And suddenly I'm listing to everything that this country stands for. And the thing that we need to preserve, you know, everything that we believe in. And I think that's the through line. This band has always sung what they believed in and nothing less. It's funny, Jo because, you know, so much of what we do is tradition and that is all history. And that's all about looking where we've been, but just keeping moving forward. The purest definition of tradition is to do something that maintains the tradition but moving forward, making something new. That's what we've done.