The Ride (Los Lobos album)

The Ride
Studio album by Los Lobos
Released	May 4, 2004
Genre	Chicano rock Roots rock Tex-Mex
Length	68:08
Label	Hollywood/Mammoth
Producer	Los Lobos
Los Lobos chronology
Good Morning Aztlán (2002)Good Morning Aztlán2002 The Ride (2004) Ride This - The Covers EP (2004)Ride This - The Covers EP2004

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic	82/100 link
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The Ride is the 11th album by Los Lobos. It features numerous guest musicians. The album contains new material and also new versions of earlier Los Lobos songs.^[1]

Track listing

1. "La Venganza de Los Pelados" – 4:51 (featuring Café Tacuba)
2. "Rita" – 5:20
3. "Is This All There Is?" – 4:43 (featuring Little Willy G.)
4. "Charmed" – 5:00
5. "Somewhere in Time" – 4:15 (featuring Dave Alvin)
6. "Wicked Rain/Across 110th Street" – 8:14 (featuring Bobby Womack)
7. "Kitate" – 3:29 (featuring Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales)
8. "Hurry Tomorrow" – 4:33
9. "Ya Se Va" – 4:54 (featuring Rubén Blades)
10. "Wreck of the Carlos Rey" – 5:58 (featuring Richard Thompson)
11. "A Matter of Time" – 2:55 (featuring Elvis Costello)
12. "Someday" – 4:39 (featuring Mavis Staples)
13. "Chains of Love" - 5:47

Personnel

Instrumentation is unspecified on the album, but this is the usual:

• David Hidalgo - vocals, guitar, accordion, fiddle, requinto jarocho
• Louie Pérez - vocals, guitar, drums, jarana
• Cesar Rosas - vocals, guitar, bajo sexto
• Conrad Lozano - vocals, bass, guitarron
• Steve Berlin - keyboards, woodwinds

Additional musicians:

• Cougar Estrada - drums and percussion on all tracks
• Victor Bisetti - additional percussion

Café Tacuba

• Elfego Buendia - vocals (1)
• Alejandro Flores - quinta guapanguera, requinto (1)
• Emmanuel de Real - jarana, keyboards (1)
• Joselo Rangel - electric guitar (1)
• Garth Hudson - keyboards (1, 11, 13)

Additional:

• Mitchell Froom - keyboards (2)
• Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar (2, 5, 11)
• Rev. Charles Williams - piano (6), organ (6), clavinet (12)
• Francisco Torres - trombone (7)
• Alberto Salas - piano (9)
• Lonnie Jordan - B-3 (12)

Billboard charts

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