ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO – Burn Something Beautiful
The temperament of Escovedo’s latest album is decidedly raucous, fueled by unflinching joie de vivre.
The temperament of Escovedo’s latest album is decidedly raucous, fueled by unflinching joie de vivre.
Show is pure Al, including a Mott the Hoople cover… By Uncle Blurt Since it’s no secret we here at BLURT are massive Alejandro Escovedo fans, let’s just cut to the chase: a couple of weeks ago he and his latest combo (he calls it The Alejandro Escovedo Experience, fittingly enough) played a small venue […]
Very special tune with a very special pedigree… By Blurt Staff We’ve gone on record as being fans of Austin Americana indie outfit the Painted Redstarts – the band’s video for “Curtains Wide” video (directed by Geoff Marslett) debuted right here at Blurt last summer. The group’s musical pedigree is noteworthy too: Alejandro Escovedo’s old […]
PHOTOS BY FRED MILLS Ye olde editor will never be a concert photographer (although at one particularly odd point in time, long before Instagram, I placed photos taken with my battered Nikon in both Billboard and Creative Loafing), but it was a no-brainer to take the point-and-click down to Raleigh’s Moore Square on May 18 […]
“A good night for a sonic rendezous….” BY MARTY PEREZ Live at Cincinnati’s Taft Theater/The Ballroom on Feb. 26: Alejandro Escoveo and Susan Voelz, plus opening act Peter Buck and his band. This was not the tour to reminence over “South Central Rain”; instead it was one to Dust the Broom and get The House […]
“A good night for a sonic rendezous….” BY MARTY PEREZ Live at Cincinnati’s Taft Theater/The Ballroom on Feb. 26: Alejandro Escoveo and Susan Voelz, plus opening act Peter Buck and his band. This was not the tour to reminence over “South Central Rain”; instead it was one to Dust the Broom and get The House […]
BY TIM HINELY / PHOTO BY JD BAMFORD Not having seen Alejandro Escovedo live prior to this evening—although I’d definitely heard Nuns, Rank & File and True Believers back in the day—I was not disappointed by his show at Denver’s Soiled Dove on November 22. He picked a perfect opener on the tour, California-bred/ Austin, […]
(Fantasy) www.concordmusicgroup.com If there was any doubt that Alejandro Escovedo could sustain his creative arc since his alliance with producer Tony Visconti and co-writer Chuck Prophet in 2008, Big Station will easily dispel it. For this record, the trio has dispensed with the thick, full-throttle rock & roll of his last two LPs […]
“If the music is going well I can get through anything,” says the Austin auteur. With a fiery new album in stores, the music’s going quite well, thank you. BY ROB PATTERSON Just what the hell is it going to take? That’s the longtime pressing question nearly two decades into the solo career […]
(Fantasy) www.concordmusicgroup.com As visceral and uncompromising as his early solo outings were cerebral and widescreen, Street Songs of Love makes a strong case for Alejandro Escovedo being one of our pre-eminent rock ‘n’ roll artists now operating well outside the parameters of the so-called Americana realm. That the man voted No Depression magazine’s […]