Tin Can Trust
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{{Infobox album
| name = Tin Can Trust
| type = Studio Album
| artist = Los Lobos
| cover = TinCanTrust.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 3, 2010
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio ={{flatlist|
- Manny's Estudio, East Los Angeles, California
- Eagle Audio Recording, Fort Worth, Texas
- Mission Bells, San Francisco, California
- John Macy Sound, Denver, Colorado
- Hinge Sound, Chicago, Illinois
- Red Star Recording, Los Angeles, California
- Milagro Studios, Walnut, California
}}
| genre = Chicano rock
Blues rock
Americana
Tex-Mex
| length = 47:23
| label = Shout! Factory
| producer = Los Lobos
| prev_title = Los Lobos Goes Disney
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = Disconnected in New York City
| next_year = 2013
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tin-can-trust-r1834484/review|title=Tin Can Trust - Los Lobos - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2016}}
|rev2 = Los Angeles Times
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/08/album-review-los-lobos-tin-can-trust.html|title=Album review: Los Lobos' 'Tin Can Trust'|date=3 August 2010|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2016}}
|rev3 = Popmatters
|rev3score = {{Rating|8|10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/128977-los-lobos-tin-can-trust/|title=Los Lobos: Tin Can Trust|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2016}}
|rev4 = Rolling Stone
|rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/tin-can-trust-20100803|title=Tin Can Trust|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2016}}
}}
Tin Can Trust is a 2010 album by the band Los Lobos, and is the band's first collection of new original material since 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129891116|title=Los Lobos On World Cafe|publisher=National Public Radio}} It features rock 'n' roll, blues, two Spanish language tracks, and a Grateful Dead cover song. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. {{Cite web |title=Los Lobos {{!}} Artist {{!}} GRAMMY.com |url=https://grammy.com/artists/los-lobos/16341 |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=grammy.com}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = David Hidalgo and Louie Perez, except where noted
| title1 = Burn It Down
| length1 = 5:11
| title2 = On Main Street
| length2 = 3:16
| title3 = Yo Canto
| writer3 = Cesar Rosas
| length3 = 2:59
| title4 = Tin Can Trust
| length4 = 4:34
| title5 = Jupiter Or The Moon
| length5 = 4:22
| title6 = Do the Murray
| writer6 = Hidalgo
| length6 = 3:35
| title7 = All My Bridges Burning
| writer7 = Rosas, Robert Hunter
| length7 = 4:51
| title8 = West L.A. Fadeaway
| writer8 = Jerry Garcia, Hunter
| note8 = Grateful Dead cover
| length8 = 7:03
| title9 = The Lady And The Rose
| length9 = 4:10
| title10 = Mujer Ingrata
| writer10 = Rosas
| length10 = 2:45
| title11 = 27 Spanishes
| length11 = 4:37
}}
Personnel
Instrumentation for Los Lobos is unspecified on the album, but this is the usual:
- David Hidalgo – vocals, guitar, accordion, fiddle, requinto jarocho
- Louie Pérez – vocals, guitar, drums, jarana
- Cesar Rosas – vocals, guitar, bajo sexto
- Conrad Lozano – vocals, bass, guitarron
- Steve Berlin – keyboards, woodwinds
Additional musicians
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite web|title=Tin Can Trust on Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/Los-Lobos-Tin-Can-Trust/release/2422465|publisher=Discogs.com|accessdate=26 August 2019}}
- Cougar Estrada – drums, percussion
- Susan Tedeschi – backing vocals (1)
- Rev. Charles Williams – keyboards (3, 7)
Technical
- Los Lobos – producer
- Shane Smith – engineer, mixing (3, 7)
- John Macy – engineer
- Dave Simon-Baker – engineer
- Jeff Ward – engineer
- Steve Weeder – engineer
- David Kalish – assistant engineer
- Nick Sullivan – assistant engineer
- Dave McNair – mixing (except 3, 7), mastering
- Cesar Rosas – mixing (3, 7)
- Louie Perez – art direction, photography
- Al Quattrocchi – art direction, photography
- Jeff Smith – art direction
- Tornado Design – design
- Drew Reynolds – photography
- Derek Dressler – A&R
- Robert Kim – project assistant
- Dave McIntosh – music business affairs
Charts
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! Chart (2010) ! Peak |
| {{album chart|Netherlands|94|artist=Los Lobos|album=Tin Can Trust|rowheader=true|access-date=July 10, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|UKIndependent|20|date=20100815|rowheader=true|access-date=July 10, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|47|artist=Los Lobos|rowheader=true|access-date=July 10, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardRock|17|artist=Los Lobos|rowheader=true|access-date=July 10, 2024}} |