📍Antone’s — Feb. 20, 2026
Written by Krysta Ayers
Just like the plaid skirts and bandanas from my millennial youth, Los Lonely Boys are back in action—and based on the sold-out show on Friday, they are keeping their multi-generational fans satiated.
The trio of boys men took the stage clad in their version of rockero aesthetic (black attire, long hair, bandanas, and Henry Garza in a black cowboy hat) to perform the Texican rock n’ roll they spent decades making their own. Though their newest album is nearly two years old (and the album before that was released 10 years prior), the Austin crowd was ready to welcome the fellow Texans back on stage, the crowd stretching to the very back, taking every square inch of the venue.
A blend of blues, rock, and bilingual soul, Los Lonely Boys become an instrument-slinging jam band when they play live. They stretch the time between verse and chorus with long, guitar-heavy solos, and an invisible shield surrounds them, seemingly placing them back in the comfort of their practice space, where they could interact and play with each other unapologetically.
Opening with 2003’s “Señorita,” the band set the high energy and overall tone for the night. The multiple guitar solos that exist in the recording were dramatized for us live, and the see-sawing between Spanish and English was a declaration of their San Angelo, Texas roots—a great segue into “Cottonfields and Crossroad” where they leaned into the blues and cried, “Now baby, I’m from Texas…you wake up early in the morning / you can hear that rooster crow.”
They kept our attention and kept our limbs swaying into tracks like “So Sensual” and “Oye Mamacita” and a quick scan of the crowd confirmed that from Gen Z to the Boomer, everyone was enjoying the colorful sounds of the decades-old hits from the band of brothers.
In a sweet, keep-it-in-the-family moment, Jojo Garza (bass, vocals) brought out his daughter to sing, and guitarist and vocalist Henry Garza brought out his son to play guitar for “Velvet Sky.” And, yes, those nepo babies (said lovingly) had the talent to be up there.
Yapping from stage was minimal, but they took the time between songs to say, “Our message through music is love.”
The show closed out with the song you think of first when you hear the name Los Lonely Boys: “Heaven.” And I’ll leave any corny clichés out of the copy, but it was a loud and joyful, life-affirming moment as a Latina from El Paso mixed into the crowd.