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  • 07.26.10: Springsteen Makes Surprise Appearance at Jersey Club

    Legend plays Rolling Stones cover at Stone Pony with Alejandro Escovedo. Bruce Springsteen shocked fans with a surprise appearance during Alejandro Escovedo’s Saturday night performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Stone Pony. Springsteen joined Escovedo on “Always a Friend,” a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Beast of Burden” and “Faith,” a track from Escovedo’s new [...]

  • 07.22.10: Alejandro Escovedo and Friends Electrify the Bowery

    The rock and camaraderie of Alejandro Escovedo’s July 21st show at Bowery Electric in New York, a half-block north of what used to be CBGB, would have been right at home in that old gone room. Escovedo, who had taped an appearance on Late Show With David Letterman earlier in the day, was promoting his [...]

  • 07.15.10: Glam makeover

    A reborn Alejandro Escovedo hits the Streets GET IT ON! The new disc joins Escovedo’s noirish and glitter sides — a rock-and-roll album that can match his beloved T. Rex singles for pure exhilaration. As a songwriter, Alejandro Escovedo is steeped in deep, brooding, film-noir Americana. But he’s also a devout fan of cheap-thrill glitter [...]

  • 07.04.10: Straightforward, Straight-From-Texas Rock – The New York Times Reviews “Street Songs of Love”

    Alejandro Escovedo’s “Street Songs of Love” lives up to the direct monosyllables of its title, then transcends them. It’s a set of 12 midtempo, clear-cut, guitar-driven songs and a closing instrumental, usually with just three or four chords, in the style that was once mainstream and is now called classic rock. All the lyrics have [...]

  • 07.03.10: South Congress shapes the sound of Escovedo’s latest

    On a sun-dappled late May afternoon, Alejandro Escovedo strolls down South Congress Avenue, a soft breeze tugging at his distinctive coif as the first vestiges of the searing summer heat to come lurk in the air. His stride is lean and purposeful, but his mind is easily distracted. In front of the bustle of Jo’s [...]

  • 07.01.10: Alejandro Escovedo On World Cafe

    Texas native Alejandro Escovedo has been a driving force behind the Americana scene since he began recording solo in 1992. Escovedo began his career as a punk rock statesman with The Nuns, only to later discover Americana and alternative country. Employing his love of both genres, as well as his roots in Latin jazz, he [...]

  • 06.30.10: Alejandro Escovedo Celebrates Album Release in New York

    Growing up, Alejandro Escovedo looked for guidance and validation in rock ‘n’ roll songs. Should his 18-year-old son, Paris Diego, do likewise, he might start with ‘Down in the Bowery,’ a standout track from his old man’s latest album, ‘Street Songs of Love.’ As Escovedo explained Tuesday night at New York’s City Winery, midway through [...]

  • 06.25.10: Alejandro Escovedo Shares His ‘Street Songs Of Love’ On NPR’s “Morning Edition”

    On Alejandro Escovedo‘s new album, Street Songs of Love, he tells the story of different people searching for the same thing: love. “It’s always been important for me, when I started writing songs, that I aim at an impossible level of songwriting,” Escovedo says. “To Dylan, to Leonard Cohen, to Townes Van Zandt. Somewhere within [...]

  • 06.22.10: Alejandro Escovedo: Live at Rolling Stone. Watch the Texas rocker play two tracks from his new LP ‘Street Songs of Love’

    Singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo recently stopped by the Rolling Stone studio with guitarist David Pulkingham to showcase a pair of new songs from his June 29th album Street Songs of Love, “Faith” and opening track “Anchor.” Street Songs of Love comes two years after Escovedo’s “purely autobiographical” album Real Animal, which like its predecessor The Boxing [...]

  • 06.14.10: ‘Underground’ legend Escovedo kicks off Square series

    So, very few people knew who he was. That didn’t stop Alejandro Escovedo from tearing up the stage during the season-starting Thursday at the Square show. If it was a strange show, it was so only because such an “underground” legend — a man given massive props from his peers, some of whom have names [...]

  • 06.08.10: Alejandro Escovedo Readies “Street Songs of Love”

    With a new album titled “Street Songs of Love” just a couple weeks away, Alejandro Escovedo has plotted a summer course throughout North America and parts of Europe. The Texas-based musician will make a couple of New York stops beginning tonight (6/8) before heading across the pond for four English concerts, after which he’ll return [...]

  • 05.11.10: Escovedo Grinds Out Great Rock for ACL Taping

    Alejandro Escovedo made his first Austin City Limits appearance in 1983, when he was still a member of Rank & File. On Friday night, he knew it would be his last chance to rock Studio 6A before ACL moves to its new downtown digs, so he came out firing, ready to give the joint a [...]

  • 04.12.10: Alejandro Escovedo’s New LP ‘Street Songs Of Love’ Due June 29 On Concord Records With Guests Ian Hunter & Bruce Springsteen

    Alejandro Escovedo’s new album ‘Street Songs of Love’ is due June 29  on Concord Records. Tony Visconti (T. Rex, David Bowie, U2, Morrissey)  took the production reins. “A band record,” as Escovedo puts it, ‘Street Songs of Love’ is made up of tightly focused rock and roll and lush ballads. He says, “It ended up [...]

  • 04.03.10: Escovedo captivates audience with a tour of personal history

    Concert Review – Southgate House, Newport, KY.  Friday, April 2, 2010 In the end, Alejandro Escovedo stood on the Southgate House stage and opened a vein. It might only have been figuratively, but the Texas singer-songwriter and his powerhouse band took the crowd of about 300 on an intimate tour of his musical (and personal) [...]

  • 03.20.10: Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys Orchestra

    Jo’s Coffee, Friday, March 19 Adoring Alejandro Escovedo fans crammed the parking lot behind Jo’s Coffee on South Congress Friday night for the long-awaited return of the local rocker leading an orchestra. They got a preview of his new album, Street Songs of Love. Looking in fine form, in good voice, and visibly pleased to [...]

  • 03.16.10: SXSW 2010: Austin’s Alejandro Escovedo on Living in the ‘Live Music Capital of the World’

    “Austin is the oasis of Texas,” explains Alejandro Escovedo, one of the city’s great musical heroes. Born in San Antonio, he made his name in San Francisco’s pioneering punk group the Nuns (they opened for the Sex Pistols on the their last show) before moving to Austin for good back in 1980. “It’s where everyone [...]

  • 02.22.10: Saint Claire Studio News: Alejandro Escovedo and The Sensitive Boys

    Alejandro Escovedo teamed up with producer Tony Visconti and came to us in late 2008 to record his album, Real Animal. One morning while we were having coffee in the lounge, Al turned to me and remarked, “This place is fantastic for us. If I have my way, I want to record all of my [...]

  • 01.26.10: KEEPING IT ‘REAL’

    Celebrated songwriter Alejandro Escovedo ruminates on life, death and everything in between Fans who turned out last January to see singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo perform at the WDVX-FM live radio show “Tennessee Shines” were blown away when he took the stage. Part of a bill that included several other artists, Escovedo and his three bandmates only [...]

  • 01.19.10: Report: Escovedo Live NC; Talks New LP

    On Friday, January 15th at Asheville NC’s The Orange Peel Texas rocker Alejandro Escovedo took the stage to the mournful sounds of George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and proceeded to shake the room, the crowd, and even himself out of the cold gray abscess of this already harsh and short winter- all while [...]

  • 01.14.10: Alejandro Escovedo and The Sensitive Boys

    Mention Alejandro Escovedo to a casual music fan, and you’ll probably get a shrug of indifference. But mention him to fans of punk, alt-country, blazing guitar-rock or confessional string-quartet pop, and you might get a big smile. And mention that the Texas-based singer/songwriter/guitarist appears Saturday at the Jewish Mother with his hard-rockin’ group, the Sensitive [...]

  • 01.10.10: Alejandro Escovedo returns to Grand Rapids for can’t-miss show

    Unbridled passion, gut-level sincerity and an extraordinary performance. Oh, and delivering the unexpected. Rock concerts that unleash these critical elements, in my mind, set themselves apart from the rest of the pack. It doesn’t matter if the show entertains thousands of fans or a few dozen diehards. Superstar Elton John’s mesmerizing sold-out solo appearance at [...]

  • 01.10.10: Alejandro Escovedo brings `Real Animal’ tour to Cleveland’s Beachland Ballroom: Plain Dealer Podcast

    Alejandro Escovedo is the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll survivor, having lived on the ragged, cutting edge of American popular music for more than three decades. At 58, he is widely considered to be one of America’s great rock songwriters. On his most recent album, “Real Animal,” Escovedo teamed up with songwriting partner Chuck Prophet to [...]

  • 11.02.09: A bombastic set from Alejandro Escovedo brought down thunder at Voodoo – literally.

    Alejandro Escovedo has been through a lot over the course of a career that’s lasted nearly thirty years.  He started in the seminal punk band the Nuns, who had the distinction of opening for the Sex Pistols on their single, U.S. disastrous tour; he went on to become one of the founding fathers of alt-country [...]

  • 10.13.09: Review: Alejandro Escovedo shines at the Highline

    October 13, 2009 (New York) – Alejandro Escovedo is a rock star.  Even though he may not be a household name, in a world of wannabes he’s got the goods.  On Sunday night at the Highline Ballroom on West 16th Street, sandwiched in between Texas newcomers Hacienda and headliners Los Lonely Boys, Escovedo showed the [...]

  • 09.04.09: Interview: Alejandro Escovedo

    Alejandro Escovedo has been called a musician’s musician. He has played in the obscure, yet legendary bands the Nuns, Rank and File and True Believers before striking off on his own solo career. His tastes run from alt-country to glam to punk. But there is an even more serious side to the story. After collapsing [...]