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The son of a Mexican immigrant and a Texas native, Alejandro Escovedo discovered and performed the sounds that morphed into the exciting styles of his life. A member of San Francisco punk rock group the Nuns, he later moved to New York City and joined Judy Nylon’s band in the late 1970s. Escovedo shifted musical styles after relocating to Austin, Texas, in the 1980s, and helped form one of the country’s first “cowpunk” bands, Rank and File. He then was the prime architect of the band True Believers, which included his brother Javier and Jon Dee Graham. That band was the turning point for Escovedo to record solo albums, resulting in more than 30 years of groups, tribute albums, original projects and experiments.
With his latest album, Echo Dancing, out March 29 via Yep Roc Records, Escovedo rewrites his own history by recording new versions of songs from his past and approaching them as challenges to express what the music means to him today. While completely reinventing and re-recording his previous work — with inspiration f
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Escovedo's professional and personal misadventures spawned the melancholic and autobiographical folk-rock of Gravity (Watermelon, 1992). Here the artist strips his heart naked, facing alone the sins of his past and the tragic state of the present. The music, however, is galvanizing. Paradise is an explosive hybrid of piano anthem a` la Warren Zevon, sneering rant a` la Bob Dylan and hard-rock riff a` la Who. And the arrangements are never trivial: the stately waltzing Broken Bottle is peppered with street organ and chamber cello; Bury Me weaves together syncopated beat, funky guitar and jazzy trumpet. The funereal piano ballad She Doesn't Live Here Anymore marks the lowest emotional point, followed by the folk-rock elegy Last To Know, reminiscent of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s (echoes of John Denver). The seven-minute Gravity/Falling Down Again, instead, fails to stand up as an equivalent of Don McLean's American Pie. On the other hand, One More Time weds Warren Zevon's wild piano boogie and a feral pace a` la Rolling Stones;
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Alejandro Escovedo
American musician
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| Born | (1951-01-10) January 10, 1951 (age 74) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | punk rock, alternative rock, cowpunk, chicano rock, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
| Labels | Columbia, Vanguard Records, Birdman, Watermelon, Yep Roc, Bloodshot, Rykodisc |
| Website | AlejandroEscovedo.com |
Musical artist
Pedro Alejandro Escovedo[1] (born January 10, 1951) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and singer, who has been recording and touring since the late 1970s. His primary instrument is the guitar. He has played in various rock genres, including punk rock, roots rock and alternative country, and is most closely associated with the music scene in Austin, Texas but also San Francisco and New York. He comes from a family of musicians.
Biography
Early life
The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas,[2] Escovedo is from a family that includes several professional musicians, including his brothers
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