Los Lobos: By The Light of the Moon (Slash)
Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, 27 January 1987
ONE TIME One Night kicks off Los Lobos's By The Light of the Moon (Slash) with such instantly riveting command and power that it seems likely that the Los Angeles quintet has taken the bracing rock coupled with insightful metaphor blueprint laid out by the title track of How Will The Wolf Survive? as a springboard to greatness.
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