Los Lonely Boys May 16, 2010

Los Lonely Boys are a family tradition, they are the three Garza brothers from San Angelo: Henry on guitar, Jojo on bass, and Ringo on drums. And there's something about the unstudied perfection of sibling vocal harmonies that creates a distinctive, irresistible style.

Drawing equal influences from rock, blues, Tex-Mex, conjunto, and Tejano, this remarkable trio has been making music together since they were small children. Their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., was a member of another sibling band, the Falcones, who played conjunto music around Texas during the '70s and '80s. After that group broke up, the senior Garza went solo, backed by his three sons. The family relocated to Nashville in the 90s, and gradually the sons emerged as a group separate from their father.

After moving back to Texas, the boys recorded their debut album, 2003's "Los Lonely Boys," at Willie Nelson's Pedernales studio in Austin with Nelson sitting in. Epic Records picked the album up for major-label distribution in March 2004, resulting in a Billboard # 1 hit for the album's lead single, "Heaven," as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance.

Henry, the oldest, has been hailed as the inheritor of the great Texas guitar tradition epitomized by Freddie King, Johnny Winter and the Vaughan Brothers, not to mention the greatest young player in the burgeoning Latino rock guitar style pioneered by Carlos Santana.