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This Time (Los Lobos album)

1999 album by Los Lobos

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ7786294 ↗
Source-derived summary

This Time is a studio album by Los Lobos, released in 1999 on Hollywood Records.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the important thing is that Los Lobos do fusion like nobody else, twisting a tangle of influences into tightly wound explorations of sound and rhythm that are genuinely electric, not just eclectic."

Track listing

Personnel

On the liner notes, the specific contributions of the members of Los Lobos are not mentioned, but are assumed to be the "usual," as noted below. Other personnel are credited as described below.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “This Time (Los Lobos album)” is 1999 album by Los Lobos. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Time, Lobos and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-01-01. For this dossier, Time, Lobos and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1999 album by Los Lobos” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7786294. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “This Time (Los Lobos album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow This Time (Los Lobos album) primary sources, This Time (Los Lobos album) archive and Time research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “This Time (Los Lobos album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.