El Cancionero Mas y Mas
El Cancionero: Mas y Mas is a four-CD box set by the American rock band Los Lobos, released in 2000. It contains album tracks, live recordings, rarities, and alternate versions, as well as tracks from solo and side projects, soundtracks, and tribute albums. Of the eighty-six tracks on the box set, eleven are previously unissued.
"El Cancionero" translates as "songbook" or "the person who interprets songs," according to guitarist/drummer Louie Pérez. The set was the subject of an essay by author Nick Hornby in his collection Songbook.
Reception
Writing for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it "the definitive portrait of Los Lobos". He wrote, "As the set winds from the authentic Mexican folk music of 1977 through the gutsy roots rock of 1987 and the dreamy soundscapes of 1992 to the daring music of the mid-'90s and then the consolidation of their strengths on 1999's This Time, it's hard not to be astonished not just by the band's range, but the fact that they do it all really well."The Guardian described the box set as "a comprehensive history of the band" with "dodgy patches among the triumphs". The eighty-six tracks are, according to The Guardian, "so varied it seems remarkable that they should be recorded by the same musicians."
Track listing
;Note- Tracks 8 and 9 recorded live January 14, 1984 at La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, California.
- Track 5 recorded live December 11, 1987 at the Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California.
- Track 20 recorded live October 18, 1987 in Burbank, California.
- Track 12 recorded live January 9, 1993 at the Moritz von Bomhard Theatre/Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Track 20 recorded live May 16, 1996 at the Wells Fargo Theater/Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California.
- Track 21 recorded live August 2, 1997 at Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.;Los Lobos
- David Hidalgo – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, accordion, violin, banjo, 6-string bass, piano, drums, percussion
- Cesar Rosas – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin
- Louie Pérez – drums, percussion, guitar, fraustophone, vocals, lead vocals on "Alone in a Crowd"
- Conrad Lozano – electric and acoustic basses, fretless bass, guitarrón, vocals, lead vocals on "Guantanamera"
- Steve Berlin – saxophones, flute, harmonica, melodica, keyboards, percussion
- Charlie Tovar – congas, percussion
- T-Bone Burnett – acoustic guitar, organ, vocals
- Alex Acuña – percussion, hand drums, shekere, drums
- Ry Cooder – accordion, bajo sexto
- Jim Dickinson – piano
- Jorge Calderon – bass
- Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
- Mitchell Froom – keyboards, harmonium
- Mickey Curry – drums
- Anton Fier – drums
- Ron Tutt – drums
- John Hiatt – vocals
- Danny Timms – organ, Wurlitzer, piano
- Jerry Marrota – drums, percussion
- Levon Helm – vocals
- Victor Bisetti – percussion, drums
- Fermin Herrera – Veracruz harp
- Pete Thomas – drums
- La Chilapeña Brass Band – horns
- Tchad Blake – bass, guitar
- Robert Rodriguez – guitar
- Yuka Honda – keyboards, sampling
- Efrain Toro – percussion
- Money Mark – keyboards
- Paul Burlison – guitar
- Jim Weider – guitar
- Joe Ely – guitar, vocals
- Rick Trevino – guitar, vocals
- Freddy Fender – acoustic bass, vocals
- Ruben Ramos – vocals
- Joel Guzman – piano, organ, accordion, percussion, vocals
- Max Baca – bajo sexto, bass, drums, vocals
- Sarah Fox – backing vocals
- Will-Dog – bass
- Alberto Salas – piano, percussion
- Cougar Estrada – drums, percussion
- Raul Malo – vocals
- Eddie Baytos – organ
- Flaco Jiménez – accordion, vocals
- Wendy Melvoin – vocals
- Lisa Coleman – vocals
- Mike Halby – vocals, instruments
- Aaron Ballesteros – drums
- Sheryl Crow – vocals
- Luis R. Torres – producer
- Los Lobos – producer
- Steve Berlin – producer, mixing
- T-Bone Burnett – producer
- Larry Hirsch – producer, engineer, mixing
- Ry Cooder – producer
- Mitchell Froom – producer
- Hal Willner – producer
- Tchad Blake – producer, engineer, mixing
- Latin Playboys – producer, engineer, mixing
- John Chelew – producer
- Leib Ostrow – producer
- Eugene Rodriguez – producer
- Cesar Rosas – producer, engineer, mixing
- Mario Caldato Jr. – producer, engineer, mixing
- Jim Weider – producer
- David Hidalgo – producer
- David Sandoval – associate producer
- Joe Schiff – associate producer, engineer, mixing, assistant engineer
- David Hirshland – associate producer
- Patrick Flynn – engineer
- Mark Fleisher – engineer, mixing
- George Johnsen – engineer
- Mark Linett – engineer, mixing, remixing engineer
- Mark Ettel – engineer, mixing
- Stephen Shelton – engineer, assistant engineer
- Bob Schaper – engineer, mixing
- Keith Keller – engineer
- Scott Woodman – engineer
- Stacy Baird – engineer
- Clark German – engineer
- Dusty Wakeman – engineer
- Peter Doell – engineer
- Paul duGré – engineer, mixing
- John Paterno – engineer, assistant engineer, mixing
- Bill Jackson – engineer, mixing
- David Wells – engineer
- Warren Dennis – engineer, mixing
- Dave McNair – engineer, mixing
- Husky Hoskulds – engineer, assistant engineer
- Mike Monroe – engineer
- Louis Stetzel – engineer
- Charles Paakkari – assistant engineer
- Judy Clapp – assistant engineer
- David Glover – assistant engineer
- Mike Kloster – assistant engineer
- Jimmy Preziosi – assistant engineer
- Doug Schwartz – assistant engineer
- Tony Chiappa – assistant engineer
- Magic Moreno – assistant engineer
- Dan Bosworth – assistant engineer )
- Eric Rudd – assistant engineer
- Brian Soucy – assistant engineer, mixing
- Tom Nellen – assistant engineer
- Neal Avron – assistant engineer
- Julie Last – assistant engineer
- Wendy Thompson – assistant engineer
- Steve Gamberoni – assistant engineer
- Fred Rennert – assistant engineer
- Robert Breen – assistant engineer
- Howard Willing – assistant engineer
- Josh Turner – assistant engineer
- Joe Zook – assistant engineer
- Joe Ferla – mixing
- Ralph Sall – mixing
- Ray Blair – mixing engineer
- Mike Kloster – mixing assistant
- Michael Prince – mixing
- John Holbrook – mixing
- Paul Rabjohns – digital assembly
- Gary Stewart – producer
- Tim Bernett – executive producer
- Los Lobos – executive producer
- Bill Inglot – remastering, sound producer
- Dan Hersch – remastering
- Cesar Rosas – music research
- Jo Motta – project coordinator
- Gary Peterson – discographical annotation
- Steve Berlin – discographical annotation
- Vanessa Atkins – editorial supervision
- Sheryl Farber – editorial supervision
- Daniel Goldmark – editorial research
- Louie Pérez – editorial direction, art supervision
- Shawn Amos – A&R editorial coordinator
- Hugh Brown – art direction
- Al Quattrocchi – art direction
- Jeff Smith – art direction
- Tornado Design – design
- James Austin – cover inspiration
- Stan Grant – cover painting