[So where is Garza these days? Back at that same auto-body repair shop - only now he and his brothers own it.] We buy old cars and fix them up, ... It's something we like to do to get our minds off everything. |
[That kicked off quite a run for Los Lonely Boys. Their accessible, earthy brand of Latin-tinged rock earned rave reviews, with Henry Garza drawing favorable comparisons to Carlos Santana.] Heaven ... a dream come true. |
All of a sudden I'll get a call from JoJo, "Hey man, check this out!" Or you know, like a month later, two months later, sometimes a year later. It's pretty tough when those songs don't wanna come out. Cause when you want them to, they won't and when you don't want them to, they will. So it's better to not want to write a song cause they'll just come, you know? |
Being a freshman, her upside is tremendous. We watched the other singles matches today. With us being a brand-new school and nobody knowing her or our school, she wasn't able to get a seed. Having seen everybody else play, she would have been in the top three. |
Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing songs when I was about 5. Same thing with Jojo. He was 5 or 6 when he picked up the guitar. |
First off our father was our biggest influence. He showed us all the songs that we needed, that we learned from. He played us every Beatles tune, every Elvis Presley tune Richie Valens, Ronny Millsap, Willie Nelson Anything that you can name ... Everything old, nothing new. Everything was old, about the only thing new I can think of is like, you know, probably like Stevie Ray and Santana and stuff. You know, they're old but they came later. |
He opened the doors for people to really start seeing us. People want to see what Willie's digging. I never really, like, followed him that much, though being from here, of course I knew of him. I knew what he meant to music and to my dad. Dad always called himself a missing outlaw, so that's what Willie represented. We're actually living dad's dream. It is pretty amazing. |
I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something. |
I can listen to an oldies station all day long, |
I did go through a period of not knowing who I was, and just settling with being a Stevie Ray or Hendrix clone. You know what, though? I realized that all of them were in me. And those guys wouldn't want me to just copy them. They were sharing their gift with me. |
I got down on my knees and started crying and started praying, and the good Lord told me to start writing it down.[Talking about the inspiration for the hit song “Heaven,” from their self-titled album] |
I've never thought about that, |
In Jesus's name we pray, In God we trust, and in La Familia we believe. |
Music has been in our family for generations, |
Music is in our blood. It’s a family tradition. We got so much from our father. He taught us, and we just learned by listening to him. We can’t read music and we can’t read notes. Everything we play is by ear and by heart. |