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 being an album about love ­ the pursuit of a feeling that is forever elusive, mysterious, and addictive.”

‘Street Songs of Love’ follows 2008′s ‘Real Animal,’ which was his highest charting album to date. Brian Mansfield named ‘Real Animal’ the number one album of 2008 in USA Today. On NPR’s Fresh Air, critic Ken Tucker raved about Escovedo’s “terse poetry and some generously open-hearted rock and roll.”

Bruce Springsteen sings on the rocker “Faith” and Ian Hunter lends his voice to “Down In The Bowery,” a song that Escovedo dedicates to his son.

“To call Alejandro Escovedo the godfather of modern country rock would sell him short,” wrote Will Hermes in Rolling Stone. Escovedo has appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brian, The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and performed at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. He sang at Bonnaroo last year and SPIN.com said, “He bared his heart and scars with equal aplomb, and with a feedback-drenched, dual-guitar attack.” Escovedo earned an AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing in 2006.