Alejandro Escovedo
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Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter
.
immigrants to Texas
, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers (and percussionists) Coke Escovedo
and Pete Escovedo
, and Sheila E (Pete's daughter and Alejandro's niece). Another brother, Mario, fronted the hard rock
band The Dragons
, and yet another brother, Javier, was in the punk rock
band The Zeros
.
Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock
group The Nuns
, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California
. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records
, but had little commercial success.
In the 1980s Escovedo moved to Austin, Texas
, where he adapted a roots rock
/alternative country
style in the bands Rank and File
(with Chip and Tony Kinman) and the True Believers (with his brother Javier and Jon Dee Graham
). However, it was with the release of his first solo albums, Gravity
in 1992 and Thirteen Years
in 1994, that he found his true voice. Although he has yet to crossover to a large mainstream audience, Escovedo has a huge underground following, and many popular artists cite him as a strong influence.
In 1997, Alejandro collaborated with Whiskeytown
and Ryan Adams
during the recording sessions for their album Strangers Almanac. He sings on "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight", "Dancing with the Women at the Bar", and "Not Home Anymore". As a salute to Alejandro, a cover of a True Believers song written by Alejandro is covered by Whiskeytown on the re-released Strangers Almanac, Deluxe Edition.
In 1998 No Depression
magazine named him Artist of the Decade. Alejandro was also involved in a side project that represents his hard rocking tastes. Buick MacKane released an album in 1997 The Pawn Shop Years, hearkening back to his musical roots from the 1970s.
In 1999, Escovedo contributed to the tribute album
to Moby Grape
's co-founder, Skip Spence
, who was critically ill with cancer. The album was intended to raise funds to address Spence's medical bills. The album was titled, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album
. The title refers to the title of Spence's only solo album, Oar
(Columbia
, 1969). On More Oar, Escovedo contributes his version of Spence's "Diana". Critic Rob Brunner commented, "The best contributions come from artists who realize that Spence's work is as much about atmosphere as words and chords. ...Alejandro Escovedo offers an appropriately bleary 'Diana', Spence's darkest song." (Birdman
, 1999), was produced by Bill Bentley
, a Warner Bros. Records
executive and Austin-referenced music producer.
In 2003, after having lived with Hepatitis-C for many years, Escovedo fell critically ill. In his long road to recovery, he faced increasing medical bills. Without medical insurance, Escovedo could not pay his substantial medical bills. Friends and admirers around the country organized benefit shows to help the songwriter. This effort grew into the album Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo, a two-disc set whose proceeds benefit the Alejandro Escovedo Medical and Living Expense Fund. Contributing musicians included Steve Earle
, Jon Dee Graham
, Lucinda Williams
, John Cale
, Jennifer Warnes
, Ian Hunter
, The Jayhawks, and Son Volt
, as well as family members Pete Escovedo (with niece Sheila E.), Javier Escovedo, and The Dragons
(featuring youngest brother, Mario Escovedo).
In 2005, Escovedo was declared to be free of the disease.
Also in 2005, Escovedo's song "Castanets" appeared on the iPod
playlist of George W. Bush
.
Boxing Mirror came out on May 2, 2006 and included many of the songs he had promoted with The Alejandro Escovedo String Quintet, including Jon Dee Graham
. Escovedo went on a short tour with the Quintet, which included a date at Carnegie Hall
's Zankel Hall in early December 2006.
In April, 2008, Escovedo changed managers and began being managed by Jon Landau
and Barbara Carr
.
Escovedo released, Real Animal
, produced by Tony Visconti
, on June 24, 2008. All of the songs were co-written with Chuck Prophet
.
In 2009, Escovedo was invited to contribute to a tribute album
to the late Doug Sahm
. Escovedo contributed his version of "Too Little Too Late" to Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm
(Vanguard Records
).
In June, 2010, Escovedo released Street Songs of Love, also produced by Visconti but released on a new label, featuring songs that were originally presented during "Sessions On South Congress" at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas with his band, The Sensitive Boys. After starting out writing about nothing in particular, the record “ended up being an album about love, the pursuit of a feeling that is forever elusive, mysterious, and addictive,” said Escovedo. A New York Times
"critic's choice" review of Street Songs of Love claimed that, "In another, less fragmented pop era, this would be the album of thoughtful but radio-ready love songs to finally get Mr. Escovedo the big national audience he deserves." Nationally syndicated radio shows such as Little Steven Van Zandt's Underground Garage gave prominent attention to Escovedo and his album, continuing to play the song "Silver Cloud" in particular well into the following year.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
.
Biography
The son of MexicanMexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
immigrants to Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers (and percussionists) Coke Escovedo
Coke Escovedo
Coke Escovedo was an American percussionist born April 30, 1941 in Los Angeles, California. Coke Escovedo first rose to prominence in 1969 as a member of Santana. Coke would be a featured on Santana's) Santana III album. In early 1972 Coke formed Azteca along with his brother Pete Escovedo...
and Pete Escovedo
Pete Escovedo
Peter "Pete" Michael Escovedo is a Mexican-American musician percussionist.-Biography:With his two brothers, Pete formed Escovedo Bros Latin Jazz Sextet, before Santana hired Pete and Coke Escovedo for his group.He led the 14-24 piece Latin Big band Azteca.Father to musician Sheila Escovedo, aka...
, and Sheila E (Pete's daughter and Alejandro's niece). Another brother, Mario, fronted the hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
band The Dragons
The Dragons (band)
The Dragons was a rock band based in San Diego, California, that released six CDs between 1991 and 2005. The band was notably fronted by singer/guitarist Mario Escovedo, whose musical family also includes Alejandro Escovedo, Pete Escovedo, Javier Escovedo , Coke Escovedo, Paris Escovedo and Sheila E...
, and yet another brother, Javier, was in the punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band The Zeros
The Zeros
The Zeros were an American punk rock band, formed in 1976 in Chula Vista, California. The band was composed of Javier Escovedo on vocals/guitar and Robert Lopez on guitar, who were both attending Chula Vista High School; Hector Penalosa, , and Baba Chenelle, , who...
.
Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
group The Nuns
The Nuns
The Nuns were a punk rock/new wave band in San Francisco in the late 1970s. The band has periodically reformed and played to the present day. The band formed in 1975, and were the among the first punk bands in California. In January 1978, together with The Avengers they opened for the Sex Pistols...
, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records
Posh Boy Records
Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Robbie Fields, a high school substitute teacher and former copyboy at the L A Times who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the late 1970s...
, but had little commercial success.
In the 1980s Escovedo moved to Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, where he adapted a roots rock
Roots rock
Roots rock is a term now used to describe rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid sub-genres from the later 1960s including country rock and Southern rock, which have been seen as responses to the...
/alternative country
Alternative country
Alternative country is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music...
style in the bands Rank and File
Rank and File
Formed by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman after they split up their punk band the Dils, Rank and File were a roots rock post-punk band. The Kinmans' singing was distinctive; they weren't traditional harmony singers à la the Everly Brothers, but rather sang synchronized upper and lower octaves. The...
(with Chip and Tony Kinman) and the True Believers (with his brother Javier and Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham is a musician, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. He was born February 28, 1959. Graham was named the Austin Musician of the Year during the South by Southwest music conference in 2006...
). However, it was with the release of his first solo albums, Gravity
Gravity (Alejandro Escovedo album)
-Track listing:#"Paradise" – 4:16#"Broken Bottle" – 3:53#"One More Time" – 3:46#"By Eleven" – 4:03#"Bury Me" – 5:24#"Five Hearts Breaking" – 4:10#"Oxford" – 4:25#"Last to Know" – 5:00#"She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" – 4:24#"Pyramid of Tears" – 4:00...
in 1992 and Thirteen Years
Thirteen Years
Thirteen Years is an album by Alejandro Escovedo.-Track listing:#"Thirteen Years Theme" – 0:49#"Ballad of the Sun and the Moon" – 4:33#"Try, Try, Try" – 4:35#"Way It Goes" – 4:54#"Losing Your Touch" – 3:56#"Thirteen Years" – 4:03...
in 1994, that he found his true voice. Although he has yet to crossover to a large mainstream audience, Escovedo has a huge underground following, and many popular artists cite him as a strong influence.
In 1997, Alejandro collaborated with Whiskeytown
Whiskeytown
Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. Fronted by Ryan Adams, other members included Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, and Mike Daly. They disbanded in 2000, with Adams leaving to pursue his solo career...
and Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
during the recording sessions for their album Strangers Almanac. He sings on "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight", "Dancing with the Women at the Bar", and "Not Home Anymore". As a salute to Alejandro, a cover of a True Believers song written by Alejandro is covered by Whiskeytown on the re-released Strangers Almanac, Deluxe Edition.
In 1998 No Depression
No Depression (periodical)
No Depression was a bi-monthly magazine that covered a broad range of roots music, including alternative country and Americana.-History:...
magazine named him Artist of the Decade. Alejandro was also involved in a side project that represents his hard rocking tastes. Buick MacKane released an album in 1997 The Pawn Shop Years, hearkening back to his musical roots from the 1970s.
In 1999, Escovedo contributed to the tribute album
Tribute album
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...
to Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music...
's co-founder, Skip Spence
Skip Spence
Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence was a Canadian-born musician and singer-songwriter. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. He released one solo album, 1969's Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry...
, who was critically ill with cancer. The album was intended to raise funds to address Spence's medical bills. The album was titled, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album
More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album
More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album is a 1999 tribute album completed shortly before and released shortly after the death of Moby Grape founding member Skip Spence. The album contains cover versions by various artists of Spence's music from his Oar album, released in 1969, presented in...
. The title refers to the title of Spence's only solo album, Oar
Oar (Skip Spence album)
Oar is a 1969 album by the late Skip Spence. It is Spence's only solo album, recorded over seven days in Nashville, on which Spence plays all of the instruments.- History :...
(Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, 1969). On More Oar, Escovedo contributes his version of Spence's "Diana". Critic Rob Brunner commented, "The best contributions come from artists who realize that Spence's work is as much about atmosphere as words and chords. ...Alejandro Escovedo offers an appropriately bleary 'Diana', Spence's darkest song." (Birdman
Birdman Records
Birdman Records is an independent record label based in South San Francisco, founded by former Warner Bros. Records A&R vice-president David Katznelson.-History:...
, 1999), was produced by Bill Bentley
Bill Bentley (producer)
Bill Bentley is a music industry executive, particularly notable for having produced tribute albums of the music of significant cult artists Roky Erickson and Skip Spence , in addition to other projects, such as being the co-producer of a tribute album to noted Texas and international artist Doug...
, a Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
executive and Austin-referenced music producer.
In 2003, after having lived with Hepatitis-C for many years, Escovedo fell critically ill. In his long road to recovery, he faced increasing medical bills. Without medical insurance, Escovedo could not pay his substantial medical bills. Friends and admirers around the country organized benefit shows to help the songwriter. This effort grew into the album Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo, a two-disc set whose proceeds benefit the Alejandro Escovedo Medical and Living Expense Fund. Contributing musicians included Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
, Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham is a musician, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. He was born February 28, 1959. Graham was named the Austin Musician of the Year during the South by Southwest music conference in 2006...
, Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
, John Cale
John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
, Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...
, Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter (singer)
Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...
, The Jayhawks, and Son Volt
Son Volt
Son Volt is an alternative country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo.-History:The group formed after Farrar met Jim and Dave Boquist during the final Uncle Tupelo tour. Together with former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, the band rehearsed and...
, as well as family members Pete Escovedo (with niece Sheila E.), Javier Escovedo, and The Dragons
The Dragons (band)
The Dragons was a rock band based in San Diego, California, that released six CDs between 1991 and 2005. The band was notably fronted by singer/guitarist Mario Escovedo, whose musical family also includes Alejandro Escovedo, Pete Escovedo, Javier Escovedo , Coke Escovedo, Paris Escovedo and Sheila E...
(featuring youngest brother, Mario Escovedo).
In 2005, Escovedo was declared to be free of the disease.
Also in 2005, Escovedo's song "Castanets" appeared on the iPod
IPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
playlist of George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
.
Boxing Mirror came out on May 2, 2006 and included many of the songs he had promoted with The Alejandro Escovedo String Quintet, including Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham is a musician, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. He was born February 28, 1959. Graham was named the Austin Musician of the Year during the South by Southwest music conference in 2006...
. Escovedo went on a short tour with the Quintet, which included a date at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
's Zankel Hall in early December 2006.
In April, 2008, Escovedo changed managers and began being managed by Jon Landau
Jon Landau
Jon Landau is an American music critic, manager and record producer, most known for his association in all three capacities with Bruce Springsteen.He is currently the head of the nominating committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
and Barbara Carr
Barbara Carr
Barbara Carr is an American blues musician.-Biography:Carr started singing in the First Baptist Church in Elmwood Park, Missouri...
.
Escovedo released, Real Animal
Real Animal
Real Animal is a studio album by Alejandro Escovedo, released in 2008.-Track listing:#"Always A Friend" – 3:35#"Chelsea Hotel '78" – 3:30#"Sister Lost Soul" – 4:16#"Smoke" – 4:23#"Sensitive Boys" – 4:29...
, produced by Tony Visconti
Tony Visconti
Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers; his lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie: intermittently from Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity to 2003's Reality, Visconti...
, on June 24, 2008. All of the songs were co-written with Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. A Californian, Prophet first achieved notice in the American psychedelic/desert rock group Green on Red, with whom he toured and recorded in the 1980s...
.
In 2009, Escovedo was invited to contribute to a tribute album
Tribute album
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...
to the late Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm
Douglas Wayne Sahm , was an American musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tejano music...
. Escovedo contributed his version of "Too Little Too Late" to Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm is a 2009 tribute album to the late Doug Sahm, released on Vanguard Records.-History and Critical Reaction:Sahm died of a heart attack, in Taos, New Mexico, on November 18, 1999, days after his 58th birthday...
(Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
).
In June, 2010, Escovedo released Street Songs of Love, also produced by Visconti but released on a new label, featuring songs that were originally presented during "Sessions On South Congress" at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas with his band, The Sensitive Boys. After starting out writing about nothing in particular, the record “ended up being an album about love, the pursuit of a feeling that is forever elusive, mysterious, and addictive,” said Escovedo. A New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
"critic's choice" review of Street Songs of Love claimed that, "In another, less fragmented pop era, this would be the album of thoughtful but radio-ready love songs to finally get Mr. Escovedo the big national audience he deserves." Nationally syndicated radio shows such as Little Steven Van Zandt's Underground Garage gave prominent attention to Escovedo and his album, continuing to play the song "Silver Cloud" in particular well into the following year.
Albums
- GravityGravity (Alejandro Escovedo album)-Track listing:#"Paradise" – 4:16#"Broken Bottle" – 3:53#"One More Time" – 3:46#"By Eleven" – 4:03#"Bury Me" – 5:24#"Five Hearts Breaking" – 4:10#"Oxford" – 4:25#"Last to Know" – 5:00#"She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" – 4:24#"Pyramid of Tears" – 4:00...
(1992) - Thirteen YearsThirteen YearsThirteen Years is an album by Alejandro Escovedo.-Track listing:#"Thirteen Years Theme" – 0:49#"Ballad of the Sun and the Moon" – 4:33#"Try, Try, Try" – 4:35#"Way It Goes" – 4:54#"Losing Your Touch" – 3:56#"Thirteen Years" – 4:03...
(1994) - The End/Losing Your Touch (1994)
- With These Hands (1996)
- More Miles Than Money: Live 1994-1996 (1998)
- Bourbonitis BluesBourbonitis Blues-Track listing:#"I Was Drunk " – 4:53#"Irene Wilde" – 2:52#"California Blues " – 3:21#"Guilty" – 4:54#"Amsterdam" – 3:43#"Everybody Loves Me" – 3:26#"Pale Blue Eyes " – 6:15#"Sacrament & Polk " – 4:44#"Sex Beat" – 4:09-Credits:...
(1999) - A Man Under the Influence (2001)
- By the Hand of the FatherBy the Hand of the Father (album)By the Hand of the Father is a collection of songs from the play By the Hand of the Father by Alejandro Escovedo, released through Texas Music Group in 2002.- Track listing :# "By the Hand of the Father Theme" – 2:57# "Wave" – 5:27...
(2002) - Room of Songs (2005)
- The Boxing MirrorThe Boxing MirrorThe Boxing Mirror is a 2006 album by Alejandro Escovedo released through Back Porch Records.- Track listing :# "Arizona" – 4:51# "Dear Head on the Wall" – 3:40# "Notes On Air" – 414# "Looking For Love" – 4:08# "The Ladder" – 2:55...
(2006) - Real AnimalReal AnimalReal Animal is a studio album by Alejandro Escovedo, released in 2008.-Track listing:#"Always A Friend" – 3:35#"Chelsea Hotel '78" – 3:30#"Sister Lost Soul" – 4:16#"Smoke" – 4:23#"Sensitive Boys" – 4:29...
(2008) - Live Animal (2009)
- Street Songs of Love (2010)
Other Contributions
- More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence AlbumMore Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence AlbumMore Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album is a 1999 tribute album completed shortly before and released shortly after the death of Moby Grape founding member Skip Spence. The album contains cover versions by various artists of Spence's music from his Oar album, released in 1969, presented in...
(BirdmanBirdman RecordsBirdman Records is an independent record label based in South San Francisco, founded by former Warner Bros. Records A&R vice-president David Katznelson.-History:...
, 1999) - Hear Music Volume 7: WakingHear Music Volume 7: WakingHear Music Volume 7: Waking is a compilation album published in 2002 by Universal Music Enterprises and sold exclusively at Starbucks locations through their Hear Music label.-Track listing:#Rufus Wainwright - "Greek Song"...
(2002, Hear MusicHear MusicHear Music, also known as StarCon is the brand name of Starbucks' retail music concept and record label. Hear Music began as a catalog company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1990 before being purchased by Starbucks in 1999.-Concept:...
) – "Wave" - 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin – Broadcasts Vol.10 (2002) – "Ballad of the Sun & the Moon"
- WYEP Live and Direct: Volume 4 – On Air Performances (2002) – "Rosalie"
- Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug SahmKeep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug SahmKeep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm is a 2009 tribute album to the late Doug Sahm, released on Vanguard Records.-History and Critical Reaction:Sahm died of a heart attack, in Taos, New Mexico, on November 18, 1999, days after his 58th birthday...
(VanguardVanguard RecordsVanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
, 2009) - Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1On July 22, 2010, Metro Chicago celebrated its 28th Anniversary by releasing a live benefit compilation called Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1 featuring The Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Indigo Girls, Alejandro Escovedo, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise,...
2010
Articles
- Alejandro Escovedo article at www.herohill.com
- Alejandro Escovedo article at www.harpmagazine.com
- Alejandro Escovedo article at www.honesttune.com
- Alejandro Escovedo article at www.browardpalmbeach.com