Los Lobos (LosLobosBand) keyboardist/saxophonist/producer Steve Berlin talks 'Native Sons,' his quintet's rollicking new lockdown-completed collection of cover songs:
Wondering how it feels to amble into your favorite old nightclub haunt after 17 post-lockdown months, and prepare to rock out with at least a smidgen of familiar abandon? Let Los Lobos keyboardist/saxophonist/producer Steve Berlin file a timely, and decidedly optimistic report from the slowly reopening frontlines of his native Portland.
The crowd’s reaction was instantaneous, says Berlin, 65, who was appearing with late saxophone legend Ralph Carney’s old Oregon outfit, Thumper. “It was they were being let out of jail—it was very, very emotional and strong, and people were just so happy to be back in that place, which hadn’t been open since March of 2020. Or happy just to be back in a club, period.
Well, it’s the same knuckleheads doing the same stuff the same way. We haven’t really learned a bunch of new tricks over the years, except that I think we learned to trust ourselves and trust our instincts more than anything. But that would be the only thing that I could specifically point to and say, “Well, that’s something we didn’t have at the beginning that we have now.” Because we really don’t care what a lot of people think or say to us, to be perfectly honest.
Well, the one that I wanted to do—which I couldn’t get anybody to go for—was a song by The Plugz called “El Clavo Y La Cruz”—it was on the second Plugz record that I was on, too, actually. It’s a really cool song, and I think that we could pull it off. But I couldn’t get anybody to go for it. And then I thought about the X song “The Have Nots”—I like that one a lot. So those are the two that were at the top of my list.
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