LOUIE & THE LOVERS
LOUIE ORTEGA
| artist: | LOUIE & THE LOVERS |
| label: | ATCO RECORDS 45-6902 |
| release: | 1972, USA, 7" 45rpm |
| A-side: | El Paso (4:39) (Marty Robbins) |
| B-side: | El Paso (stereo, 4:39) (Marty Robbins) |
| comment #1: | Louie Ortega: vocal, guitar |
| comment #2: | Recorded at Atlantic South, Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida Produced by Sir Doug, Tex Wex and Tom Mix |
| comment #3: | mono/stereo |
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| comment #1: | All Music Guide Review Louie & the Lovers' Rise is a legendary album, at least among hardcore record collectors. It's the kind of record that is heard of more than heard -- the kind of record rumored about in collectors' circles, as evidenced by R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck impressing author Brett Milano in his ode to record collectors, +Vinyl Junkies, the kind of record that fetches absurd prices when actually found in specialty shops or record conventions. Rise gathered such attention for a few reasons. First of all, it was genuinely rare, released briefly on Epic Records in 1970 but received little attention and sold only a handful of copies. Second, the album was produced by Texas cult hero Doug Sahm, whose dedicated following collects anything he recorded. Third, the band simply has a great story: they were a teenage Mexican-American garage band, inspired greatly by Creedence Clearwater Revival and to a lesser extent the Byrds, who were still in high school and playing sets of all-original material when they gained the attention of Sahm and Epic, leading to this one album. Finally, the music is really, really good, a fresh and unpredictable blend of Byrdsian jangle and psychedelia, CCR-styled choogling boogie, Texas blues, Mexican tradition, old-fashioned teen-beat rock & roll, and a sense of popcraft learned from the Beatles. It's easy to see why Sahm went crazy for this band -- they share a similar pan-cultural sensibility, blurring lines between different musical styles not just over the course of an album but within a song, and it's done out of a natural love, not a self-conscious exercise in genre-hopping. Not that Louie & the Lovers sounds much like the Sir Douglas Quintet; they arrive at a similar place by reinterpreting shared influences and following a similarly big-hearted, relaxed, and rocking vision. |
| CD1488 |
| artist: | LOUIE AND THE LOVERS |
| label: | EVANGELINE ACADIA ACA 8049 |
| EAN/UPC: | 0 805772 804920 |
| title: | RISE |
| release: | 2003, United Kingdom, CD [15/44:18] |
| tracks: | RISE:
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| artist: | LOUIE ORTEGA AND THE WILD JALAPEÑOS |
| label: | WILD JALAPEÑO MUSIC |
| UPC / EAN: | 0 15882 00022 2 |
| title: | IN MY HEART |
| release: | 1997, USA, CD [15/53:17] |
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| comment #1: | Song #1 "Today" is actually "Tomorrow Just Might Change". |
| comment #2: | Song #14 & 15 are bonus tracks! |
| comment #3: | Song #7 "Amor De Mi Vida" is also recorded by MAX BACA & LOS TEXMANIACS. |
| comment #4: | Song #15 "Llevame Jam" is an instrumental version of Llevame. |