Houndog: David Hidalgo, Mike Halby. Additional personnel includes: Harvey Brooks (bass); Dennis Kenmore (drums). Imagine Los Lobos at their bluesiest, slowed down to half-speed, and you'll have an idea what Houndog sounds like. After COLOSSAL HEAD, Los Lobos parted ways with their label, and spent the rest of the '90s pursuing various side projects, including Los Super Seven, the Latin Playboys, Cesar Rosas' solo album, and this collaboration between head Lobo David Hidalgo and his blues-playing California buddy Mike Halby. Halby does the singing, and his voice sounds uncannily similar to Hidalgo's (if tenor Hidalgo were a baritone). The production is extremely spare and raw, reminiscent of the bluesiest tracks on Tom Waits' BONE MACHINE, with the tempos slowed to a pace that matches Halby's languorous, laconic style. Song-oriented and as bare-bones as you can get, HOUNDOG is the sound of the blues filtered through a strange, almost Beefheartian lens.

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Houndog: David Hidalgo, Mike Halby. Additional personnel includes: Harvey Brooks (bass); Dennis Kenmore (drums). Imagine Los Lobos at their bluesiest, slowed down to half-speed, and you'll have an idea what Houndog sounds like. After COLOSSAL HEAD, Los Lobos parted ways with their label, and spent the rest of the '90s pursuing various side projects, including Los Super Seven, the Latin Playboys, Cesar Rosas' solo album, and this collaboration between head Lobo David Hidalgo and his blues-playing California buddy Mike Halby. Halby does the singing, and his voice sounds uncannily similar to Hidalgo's (if tenor Hidalgo were a baritone). The production is extremely spare and raw, reminiscent of the bluesiest tracks on Tom Waits' BONE MACHINE, with the tempos slowed to a pace that matches Halby's languorous, laconic style. Song-oriented and as bare-bones as you can get, HOUNDOG is the sound of the blues filtered through a strange, almost Beefheartian lens.