A founding member of SF-based punk band The Nuns, Alejandro Escovedo moved to Austin, and after working with bands like Rank and File, playing "roots rock/alternative country," released "Gravity," his first solo album, in 1992. He's since worked with the likes of Ryan Adams, and has garnered a significant cult following. But after battling Hepatitis for years, and nearly succumbing in 2003, Escovedo recovered only to find himself deep in debt from medical expenses. According to Wikipedia, "friends and admirers around the country organized benefit shows to help the songwriter. This effort grew into the album "Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo," a two-disc set whose proceeds benefit the Alejandro Escovedo Medical and Living Expense Fund. Contributing musicians included Steve Earle, Jon Dee Graham, Lucinda Williams, John Cale, Jennifer Warnes, Ian Hunter, The Jayhawks, and Son Volt (available through the artist's Web site)."
"This June," according to AlejandroEscovedo.com, he "released his 9th solo album Real Animal. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T.Rex, Thin Lizzy), Real Animal is a collective journey through Escovedo’s various musical incarnations from punk rock to string quintets and is as introspective as it is retrospective. Recalling the people, places and influences that helped shape his career, Real Animal represents the primitive aspect of Escovedo’s music - the instinct, the urgency and a survivor mentality that fuels his musical passion."
For Sunday Live, I'm posting Alejandro Escovedo, Live at The Troubador in West Hollywood, 9.9.08 (from archive.org). You can download the entire show as a 64Kbps MP3 ZIP or VBR ZIP file.
Here are the individual tracks as 64Kbps MP3's:
01. Put You Down
02. Always a Friend
03. Everybody Loves Me
04. Sister Lost Soul
05. Juarez > Rosalie
06. Sensitive Boys
07. I Was Drunk
08. Chelsea Hotel '78
09. Real as an Animal
10. Castanets
11. All the Young Dudes *
12. Beast of Burden *^
(* w/ David Garza - vocals & ^ guitar)
THE BAND:
Alejandro Escovedo - guitar & vocals
David Pulkingham - guitar
Josh Gravelin - bass
Matthew Fish - cello
Hector Munoz - drums
Carrie Rodriguez - violin
A L S O
You can download the studio version of Always A Friend, a track from the new album, at AlejandroEscovedo.com.
"Well Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he kick it in the head when he was twenty-five
Speed jive don't want to stay alive
When you're twenty-five
And Wendy's stealing clothes from marks and sparks
And Freddy's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
Television man is crazy saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh man I need TV when I got T Rex
I'm a dude man
All the young dudes (Hey dudes)
Carry the news (Where are ya)
Boogaloo dudes (Stand up Come on)
Carry the news"
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