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  • 02.03.10: Drinks With: Alejandro Escovedo

    Skip Matheny –former bartender in a retirement community and currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle — interviewed Alejandro Escovedo last month, when Roman Candle was touring with the legendary Texas songwriter.
    Skip’s note: “This was the last night of the tour in Louisville, Kentucky. The next day (Alejandro and his [...]

  • 01.27.10: Alejandro Escovedo : Headliners Music Hall : Louisville, KY : 1/23/10

    After the life that he’s lived and almost lost, it’s no surprise that Alejandro Escovedo puts on an incendiary performance that would probably embarrass most artists half his age. At nearly sixty, and after the 2008 release of Real Animal, Escovedo seems to be at the apex of a creative rebirth.
    When he brought his band [...]

  • 01.23.10: Alejandro Live On “Corner Lounge”, WCNR – Charlottesville, VA

    Click on the link below to listen/download the Alejandro Escovedo “Corner Lounge” visit from WCNR in Charlottesville, VA.   Recorded January 17, 2010.
    http://drop.io/wcnralejandroescovedo
    Hosted by:  WCNR’s Afternoon Host/Music Director Jeff Sweatman.
    http://www.1061thecorner.com

  • 01.17.10: Alejandro Escovedo at The Jewish Mother

    Alejandro Escovedo bolted into his show at The Jewish Mother Saturday night counting “1,2,3,4″ and leading his band into the bracing rock of “Always a Friend,” perhaps the catchiest and most ear-friendly tune of a long career filled with them.
    While Escovedo’s music over his four decades as a performer has ranged from string-backed Southwestern ballads [...]

  • 01.14.10: Sensitive Souls

    My ears are still ringing. And I can still feel the pounding of the drums in my chest. When I close my eyes, I see long fingers pounding the heck out of a beautiful guitar. I didn’t expect to love it, really, this heart-rending display of rock and roll. But I did. Alejandro Escovedo rocked [...]

  • 01.13.10: “Play good loud rock and say something interesting”

    Austin’s Alejandro Escovedo is more than a singer/songwriter
    “You look back at what a buzz it was to plug in an electric guitar, make a lot of noise and have your friends jump along side of you,” says Mexican-American musician Alejandro Escovedo. “You realize what an interesting life it’s been.”
    Escovedo’s life certainly has been interesting: When [...]

  • 11.16.09: North Carolina Public Radio Interview

    For an interview from WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio, click on the links below.  Many thanks to our friend John Stasio, host for the interview.
    http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1113abc09.mp3
    http://www.wunc.org/programs/tsot/

  • 09.04.09: Interview: Alejandro Escovedo

    Singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo has been playing and recording music for over three decades. He was the member of several punk bands (Rank and File, True Believers) before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s. His ninth solo album, Real Animal, was released in 2008.

    Causecast’s Brandon Deroche recently sat down with Escovedo to [...]

  • 07.23.09: Escovedo Embraces Studio

    For Austin, Texas singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo, the studio is now as important a songwriting tool as his guitar.
    “It wasn’t always like that,” he notes, just a day out of recording and rehearsing for the series of shows in Canada that has him playing The Starlite Room on Monday evening. “It began with [2001’s] A Man [...]

  • 07.11.09: Alejandro Escovedo makes most of his second chance

    In 2003, cult rocker Alejandro Escovedo started vomiting blood before a show one night. Not one to lay down on the job, he finished the gig only to find out he had a bad case of Hepatitis C, along with severe cirrhosis of the liver.
    After nearly four decades of living life hard on the road, [...]

  • 07.07.09: Alejandro Escovedo, Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church June 16, 2009

    As for an opportunity to enjoy a stripped down, acoustic encounter with Alejandro Escovedo, there could be no better place than the intimate confines of this Toronto landmark. Ably supported by longtime cohort, violinist Susan Voelz, and relative newcomer, guitar wunderkind David Pulkingham, Escovedo used the chamber-like setting to showcase recreations of career highlights with [...]

  • 06.14.09: Bonnaroo – Best Rock’n'Roll Animal (with strings!): Alejandro Escovedo

    A rock’n’roll survivor with a serious thing for the Velvet Underground, Alejandro Escovedo and a violin- and cello-augmented edition of his band played what easily had to be the festival’s most John Cale-inspired set in That Tent. Drawing heavily on last year’s Real Animal, Escovedo revisited his days with the San Francisco punk band the [...]

  • 06.14.09: New lease on life: Alejandro Escovedo rocking, rolling after health scare

    Alejandro Escovedo seems to be a good example of one who, having been granted a new lease on life, is making the most of every waking moment. In 2003, it was revealed that Escovedo – an amazingly versatile artist who can navigate alt-country, chamber-pop and pulverizing punk with equal facility – had been diagnosed with [...]

  • 06.11.09: Review: Alejandro At Twangfest. June 10, 2009

    Twangfest, the annual homegrown music festival that showcases roots music in all it various forms, got off to a roaring start Wednesday night at the Pageant.
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    Alejandro Escovedo, removed only a couple of years from a brush with death due to hepatitis C, looked hale and hearty during his headlining set, which explored his long, pioneering [...]

  • 06.09.09: Alejandro Escovedo Preps for a Couple Charity Events

    It’s been a good year for Austin rocker Alejandro Escovedo . He’s been nominated for the Americana Music Association award for Artist of the Year, and last summer’s Real Animal is up for Album of the Year. Earlier this spring, he swept up a number of accolades at the Austin Music Awards, where he was [...]

  • 06.04.09: Star-struck in Austin: Meeting my musical hero

    Maria’s Taco Xpress sits on a busy expressway in south Austin, Texas, snuggled in between car yards and furniture stores. Just next door is a muffin van that promises low-fat, no-worry, health-heaven eating. But Maria’s is not just a fabulous place to have tacos, breakfast time, lunchtime or late night-dining time. It’s also a meeting [...]

  • 05.27.09: “Live Animal” By Alejandro Escovedo

    This five-song live Alejandro Escovedo gem was recorded in June of 2008 at the Sirius XM Studios in New York City for their show “Kick out the Jams” with Dave Marsh. The intimate live setting has the faint applause of the small crowd as Escovedo opens with “Always a Friend” then breaks into “People (We’re [...]

  • 05.16.09: Alejandro Escovedo :: 04.14.09 & 04.15.09 :: Eddie’s Attic :: Decatur, GA

    Anticipation of catching Alejandro Escovedo performing for two nights in a row brought with it not only excitement but an opportunity to share an extended glimpse into the mood of an extremely genuine performer. Escovedo is capable of presenting his music in many different configurations – the rock band, the trio and the orchestra, with [...]

  • 05.10.09: Alejandro Escovedo At Bush Hall, London: Five Stars

    (Rated 5/5 )

    Alejandro Escovedo is more cult figure than household name, but over the last few years he’s started getting some of the kudos he deserves – and just in time, given that he almost died in 2003 of Hepatitis C. Friends and musicians, including Steve Earle and John Cale, released a [...]

  • 04.29.09: Clash Of Culture With Spanish Bombs – 4 Star Review

    The ghost of Joe Strummer hovered over the Barbican last night, wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt and waving a revolutionary flag. Here were musicians from Spain and beyond, paying homage to the Clash’s renegade spirit, tuneful idealism and decision to name their fourth album Sandinista.
    Jonaz of Mexican electronic outfit Plastilina Mosh delivered a quirky London [...]

  • 04.24.09: Alejandro Escovedo @ Turner Hall Ballroom

    Much has been made about Alejandro Escovedo’s battle with hepatitis C and how the disease almost took his life in 2003. In fact, it seems that the singer-songwriter’s bout with illness often threatens to overshadow his work, as fans and music critics alike seem intent on viewing his body of work through the spectrum of [...]

  • 04.18.09: Alejandro Escovedo To Play The Maze In Nottingham, UK

    He’s readied the room for Johnny Rotten and played just about every South-By-Southwest, and now Alejandro Escovedo’s coming to the Maze. He told ERIK PETERSEN about a winding, legendary career…
    SOME day, EG can safely predict, you’ll be at a pub quiz and the quizmaster will ask for the name of the band that opened the [...]

  • 04.14.09: John’s Mega-Superior SXSW ‘09 Show Of The Year: Alejandro Escovedo Orchestra

    I’ve mentioned previously that one of the reasons I’ve been going to SXSW for 10 straight years (which is to say, 11 South-by’s) now is in search of those only-at-South-by moments of pure magic. Of the magical South-by moments that I’ve been privileged to witness over the years, more than a few have involved the [...]

  • 04.10.09: Escovedo Goes Acoustic In Milwaukee

    For a man poised to leave the planet in 2003, Alejandro Escovedo is enjoying a vibrant present.
    A former ’70s punker turned Southwest roots rocker, Escovedo has always labored in the intermittent sunshine of critical approval and commercial disinterest. That seems to be changing, however, since he hooked up with Bruce Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau. It [...]

  • 03.26.09: Maria’s Taco Xpressions – SXSW 2009

    Alejandro Escovedo is at the center of the storm. The man is the epitome of cool, and it was no different here at this jam-packed, casual gathering of the tribe at Maria’s Taco Xpress. Escovedo was everywhere at SXSW, from jamming with the Fireants at Austin Music Hall paying tribute to Doug Sahm to closing [...]