Con Safos
{{Infobox album
| name = Con Safos
| type = studio
| artist = Ruben and the Jets
| cover = Ruben and the Jets Con Safos.jpg
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| released = 1974
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| genre = {{Flatlist|
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| length = 36:31
| label = Mercury
| producer = Denny Randell
| prev_title = For Real!
| prev_year = 1973
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{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r216991|first=Bruce|last=Eder}}
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Con Safos (With Respect{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/con-safos-ruben-funkahuatl-guevara-documentary-directors-michael-vargas-moni-vargas-kcet-interview-news-1234854888/ |title=Doc On "God Of Funk" Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara—Chicano Singer, Activist—Opens New Season Of KCET's 'Artbound' |last=Carey |first=Matthew |date=October 12, 2021 |publisher=Deadline |access-date=2022-07-07}}) is an album by Ruben and the Jets. The title of the album is a graffiti tag used by Mexican-American graffiti artists to discourage other graffiti artists from painting over or altering their graffiti, sometimes painted as "c/s".{{cite news |url=https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/chicano-culture-ruben-guevara-documentary/ |title=The Many Lives (and Names) of Chicano Icon Rubén Guevara |last=Stromberg |first=Matt |newspaper=Lamag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles |date=October 13, 2021 |publisher=Los Angeles magazine |access-date=2022-07-07}}
Released in 1974, the album is the second and final release to feature the lineup led by musician Rubén Guevara Jr.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MsJNDwAAQBAJ&dq=Con+Safos+ruben+and+the+jets&pg=PA99|title=Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer|first=Rubén Funkahuatl|last=Guevara|date=April 13, 2018|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=9780520297227|via=Google Books}} The album's eclectic sound draws from genres such as blues, rhythm and blues, progressive rock and rock and roll.
Track listing
;Side one
- "Cruisin' Down Broadway" - 3:20
- "To Be Loved" - 3:07
- "Stronger" (preview) - 0:32
- "Speedoo" - 3:31 (Esther Navarro)
- "Honky Tonk" - 3:45
- "Low Ridin' Cruiser" - 3:27
;Side two
- "Stronger" - 3:35
- "Earth to Buffalo" - 1:09
- "I Wanna Know" - 3:08
- "Honky Tonk" (replay) - 0:49
- "Dust My Blues" - 2:47 (Robert Johnson, credited to Elmore James)
- "A Thousand Miles Away/You Send Me" - 3:01
- "Durango" - 4:16
Personnel
Personnel adapted from AllMusic.
; Ruben and the Jets
- Rubén Guevara Jr. – vocals, tambourine, keyboards
- Tony Duran – guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Robert "Frog" Camarena – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Robert "Buffalo" Roberts – tenor saxophone
- Bill Wild – bass guitar, tenor vocals
- Bob Zamora – drums
- Jim Sherwood – baritone saxophone, tambourine
References
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