180 Gram Black Vinyl. How Will the Wolf Survive? is the major label third album of Los Lobos originally released in 1984. Los Lobos's ability to wade through disparate musical styles isn't the stuff of Elvis and the Beatles, but Los Lobos did it on their debut album. And, unlike much of the material Los Lobos cut their teeth on as a Los Angeles Top 40 cover band, there is nothing lowest-common-denominator about the band's original music. Don't Worry Baby is a blues rocker gritty enough for John Lee Hooker; rockabilly meets country, courtesy of David Hidalgo's lap steel, on Our Last Night; Cesar Rosas pays homage to the band's Mexican roots on the mariachi-style Corrido #1; and Will the Wolf Survive? is an infectious jangle rocker that became an early MTV hit. Seamless.
