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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nJoJo Garza\u2019s got a good excuse for not hearing his phone ring. As often happens when he has tour downtime with brothers Henry and Ringo Garza, he takes the opportunity to jam. That is, after all, how Los Lonely Boys\u2019 eighth studio album Revelation<\/i> first poked its\u00a0head into the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cSongs are born on the road\u2014they just come,\u201d JoJo says. \u201cWe\u2019ve always had the belief that things were revealed to us, especially realizing the gifts we have to play. The music is such a blessing. It\u2019s something only a few select people have.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Garza brothers\u2014who began playing music with their father in Texas when they were kids before moving to Nashville to become a Grammy-winning trio\u2014are now counting their blessings even more. They had a scare last February when Henry fell off the stage and suffered serious back injuries that put him out of commission for several months. Fortunately most of Revelation<\/i> was already recorded, but the incident added a layer of depth and irony to the title. \u201cIt puts everything into perspective,\u201d JoJo says. \u201cIt was a big turning point in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Henry is still recovering, the magic that initially brought out the first atoms of Revelation<\/i>\u2019s 12 tracks goes back to subconscious songwriting. \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re having a dream and you\u2019re able to wake up and remember that rhythm,\u201d JoJo says. \u201cSuddenly you\u2019re working on it at 2 in the morning. That happened a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
It helped the music come faster and more seamlessly when the brothers changed up their songwriting process: Each wrote separate tracks of the songs before getting together to refine and flesh them out. \u201cIt was really just to get some songs done,\u201d says JoJo. \u201cFrom this process what we learned is that you get a lot done. They did a little bit of writing, I wrote some, and a few other cats came in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the cats on Revelation <\/i>include Radney Foster, Matthew Gerrard, David Qui\u00f1ones, George Pajon Jr., Keith Harris and Ra\u00fal Pacheco. The variety of each artist\u2019s background is apparent in the record\u2019s changing flavors of everything from reggae to heavy rock to blues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of jamming going on,\u201d JoJo says. \u201cWe\u2019re always trying to stay positive with what we sing about\u2014moving forward and fighting through, giving it the best while you\u2019re here. Another big focus was not to turn it into what people think of as a Los Lonely Boys tune. It\u2019s not an identity crisis. It\u2019s just to show people we\u2019re not just<\/i> Los Lonely Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Shauna Farnell<\/p>\n
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