Don’t mess with these Texans - Los Lonely Boys

“IT hasn’t been at all lonely at the top for Los Lonely Boys, the hit trio of Mexican American brothers with the rootsy music style they call Texican. In fact, the boys discovered that stardom meant no shortage of people telling them how to follow up on their self-titled 2003 debut album, a surprise, multiplatinum smash with the Grammy-winning hit single “Heaven.”

Their label suggested they should cover radio-friendly songs by other writers. Their manager, a former Texas musician himself, was fixated on churning out the next hit single. And some well-meaning marketers even told them to tone down the spirituality that was part of their upbringing in the big sky country of West Texas and that found its way naturally into songs like “Heaven,” written as a prayer in a desperate, down-and-out moment in Memphis.”

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