Photo Essay-Los Lobos at the Sacramento Music Festival

Once in while in this business, one is lucky enough to get up close to watch an all-time favorite. That was the case Sunday night at the Sacramento Music Festival, when the Beet Seeking Missile was able to hang in the photo pit for the entire two-hour plus Los Lobos set. And what a set it was!

 One of America's finest rock bands (and a Beet Seeking Missile favorite!) played a memorable show. Los Lobos are going strong in their fourth decade of touring, recording and blending cultural heritage with psychedelic rock, folk and blues. In a set list that spanned their 40 years together, they played favorites like "Dream in blue,"  "I got loaded," "Volver Volver," "Mas y Mas" and a great cover of the Grateful Dead's "West L.A. Fadeaway."
The greatest part of the show was while looking around at all the dancing, happy, singing people giving their pure , unabashed love to this band, I would look up and catch the band having fun too; joking with each other between songs, inviting a fan onstage to sing and generally being the consumate pros and great multi-instrumentalists that they are known to be all over the world.