Alejandro Escovedo no longer takes anything for granted. Always a courtly gentleman with a soft-spoken manner, he begins the interview by asking, “How are you?” Fine, Al, great. Couldn’t be better. And you? How are you feeling? “I’m doin’ very […]
In 1991, Alejandro Escovedo turned 40 and also turned a corner personally and artistically. In the liner notes to the newly reissued Gravity, he writes, “One day the world stopped spinning until it took on the proportions of a lifetime, […]
While I have no idea whether Alejandro Escovedo is much of an environmentalist, no artist in modern music has benefited more from recycling. Throughout his solo career, Escovedo has drawn from material dating back to his hard-rocking days in the […]
By the standards of a business in which marketing campaigns are measured in years instead of weeks, and new records, even by cult artists, are dropped on us like major position papers, this is a modest effort: a mix of […]
