La Pistola Y El Corazon

La Pistola y El Corazón is the fourth album by the Mexican American rock group Los Lobos, released in September 1988 on Slash/Warner Bros. Records. The mini-album is dedicated to Tejano/Mariachi folk music. It won a Grammy Award in 1989 for Best Mexican-American Performance. The cover is a painting by East L.A. Chicano artist George Yepes, who conceived the image after listening to a demo of the album. "It is a perfect marriage between the musical and the visual," said band member Louie Pérez. "George’s painting directs you to the heart of the whole record. It has the same tough image as the music itself." The original painting was purchased by Warner Brothers Records and given to singer Madonna as a gift. Shortly afterwards, the painting was destroyed when a fire burned down a trailer inhabited by Sean Penn and Madonna. Yepes has created several other versions, including two in the Cheech Marin collection. The cover has won numerous awards and was, in 1999, selected as one of the 100 Best Album Covers of All Time by the editors of Rolling Stone Magazine.

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