Los Lonely Boys haven’t released a proper studio album since 2014’s Revelation — and for three of those intervening years, starting in 2019, they weren’t touring either. Resurrection, their 2024 BMG release and first record in a decade, is the answer to whether the Garza brothers still have something worth saying. They play the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on September 25 with opener Lisa Morales.
About the Show
Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza came up in San Angelo, Texas, where their father Ringo Garza Sr. had played in the Falcones before going solo with his sons as backing band — before those sons had reached their teens. The family relocated to Nashville in the ’90s; the brothers eventually developed what they called “bluesy Texican rock & roll,” drawing from rock, blues, Tex-Mex, conjunto, and Tejano. Their 2003 debut was recorded at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales studio in Austin, with Nelson sitting in. The single “Heaven” hit number one on the adult contemporary chart and landed in the Top 40 on the Hot 100; the album spent 76 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 and sold over two million copies. A Grammy came with it.
Resurrection returns to the instincts that built the band. Rock and Blues Muse critic Hal Horowitz described the ten-track album as merging “roots rocking, Tex-Mex, Latin, blues, and even pop into a succulent cultural gumbo,” adding that the approach showed “a rugged, focused” quality “harkening back to the group’s finest material.” Henry Garza’s voice, Horowitz noted, “has only gotten stronger and more assured” in the decade since the band last recorded. The closing track “Bloodwater” pairs Henry’s “fiery playing” with organ from Reese Wynans. Opening the evening is Lisa Morales — a Texas-based Americana songwriter, one half of Sisters Morales (the first Latina duo signed to RCA Records in Nashville), and a cousin of Linda Ronstadt. Her most recent solo album, Sonora, arrived in September 2024.
Venue & Logistics
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center at 14 Castle Street draws audiences from across the Hudson Valley and western Massachusetts. At 681 seats, it’s the kind of theater where a guitar-forward trio registers differently than it would in a shed or an amphitheater — and the Garzas’ live reputation has always rested on what Henry does when the room is quiet enough to hear it. Show time is 8:00 p.m.
Tickets
Tickets range from $34 to $69: Limited Upper Balcony ($34), Reserved ($49), Preferred ($59), and Premium ($69). Mahaiwe member and youth discounts apply. Processing fees are additional. The box office is at 413-528-0100. Buy tickets