Source: Blender

The mighty men of San Angelo, Texas, rarely let a solo run longer than it takes to finish a beer.

Reviewed by Jon Dolan

Los Lonely Boys have a vision for America: a lime in every Corona, a wah-wah guitar solo on every jukebox and what happens in Texico stays in Texico. The brothers Garza — guitarist Henry, bassist JoJo and drummer Ringo — remade pedal-stomping jams as dinner-date pop by streamlining stodgy Lone Star axe-slinging into tight packages that don’t confuse proving their manhood with testing your endurance. Sacred, the follow-up to their multiplatinum 2003 debut, adds flourishes like the country-tinged rocker “Outlaws” and the Havana slow dance “I Never Found a Woman,” but the bros stick to the script they wrote three years ago — Santana solos minus girly cameos, Los Lobos vocal warmth minus L.A. artsiness. Just tres hombres messing with the blues as politely as any real man can.