''Gates of Gold'' is the fifteenth studio album by the

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Los Lobos Los Lobos (, Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, ...

, released in September 2015. It was released worldwide through 429 Records and in Europe through

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. It is the band's first full-length studio album since 2010's '' Tin Can Trust''.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Los Lobos *

David Hidalgo David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954, in Los Angeles.) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requin ...

– vocals, guitar, drums, bass, keyboards * Cesar Rosas – vocals, guitar, bajo sexto *

Louie Pérez Louis Frausto Pérez, Jr. (born January 29, 1953) is an American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist for Los Lobos and Latin Playboys. Pérez started with Los Lobos playing primarily jarana (a small Mexican guitar) and singing. He is one ...

– guitar, jarana *

Conrad Lozano Conrad R. Lozano (born March 21, 1951, in Los Angeles, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a t ...

– bass *

Steve Berlin Steven M. Berlin (born September 14, 1955, Philadelphia) is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, the Blasters, and the Flesh ...

– saxophones, keyboards Additional musicians *

David Hidalgo Jr. David Hidalgo Jr. (born August 30, 1984) is an American drummer who plays in the punk rock band Social Distortion. Early life, family and education He is the son of David Hidalgo, guitarist and singer of Los Lobos. The younger David began ...

– drums * Syd Straw – backing vocals (1) *

Marcos J. Reyes Marcos Reyes ~ Marcos J. Reyes, born in 1960 in Bakersfield, California to parents from Chihuahua, Mexico, has been the Latin percussionist for the American progressive soul band War (American band), War since 1998. Career Beginning by practicin ...

– percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 8) *

Mitchell Froom Mitchell Froom (born June 29, 1953) is an American musician and record producer. He was a member of the bands Gamma (band), Gamma and Latin Playboys, and is currently the keyboardist for Crowded House. He has produced albums for several artists, ...

– keyboards (2, 7) * Oscar Utterstrom – trombone (2) * Sammy Avila – organ (3, 6, 10), piano (10) * Robert Crowell – alto saxophone (5) * Josh Baca – accordion (6) * Juan Perez – bass (6, 10) Technical *

– producer * Shane Smith – engineer, mixing (except 1) * Darren Frandsen – assistant engineer * Matt Jacobson – assistant engineer * Jesse Druehl – assistant engineer * Joe Trevino – additional engineer * Adam Landry – additional engineer * Cesar Rosas – additional engineer, photography * Dave Beeman – additional engineer * Stephen Koszler – additional engineer *

Niko Bolas Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant and business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio. In 1989, Bolas founded Fakespace Music with Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall and Christian Greuel, which, ...

– mixing (1) * Dave McNair – mastering (except 3, 6, 8, 10) * Stephen Marsh – mastering (3, 6, 8, 10) * Mando Tavares – production coordination * Al Quattrocchi – art direction * Jeff Smith – art direction * Tornado Design – art direction * Louie Pérez – photography * John Gilhooley – photography * Noé Montes – photography

References

Los Lobos albums 2015 albums 429 Records albums Proper Records albums {{2010s-rock-album-stub