11:20am Rosalie by Alejandro Escovedo from Room of Songs
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11:20am Rosalie by Alejandro Escovedo from Room of Songs
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12:28am Always A Friend by Alejandro Escovedo from Real Animal
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4:23pm Heartbeat Smile by Alejandro Escovedo from Burn Something Beautiful
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1:24pm Did You Tell Me? by Alejandro Escovedo from By The Hand Of The Father: Songs & Stories From The Original Theaterwork
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1:18am Bury Me by Alejandro Escovedo from Echo Dancing
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12:29am Wedding Day by Alejandro Escovedo from A Man Under the Influence
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12:07am Put You Down by Alejandro Escovedo from Room of Songs
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"Real Animal" by Alejandro Escovedo released this day in 2008.
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5:40pm Bury Me by Alejandro Escovedo from Echo Dancing
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7:04am Castanets by Alejandro Escovedo from A Man Under the Influence
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Stupid phone could not identify #AlejandroEscovedo Bury Me on the radio. I knew I recognized it, but just my brain couldn’t get there. The phone was useless. If it’s not commercial, it doesn’t know about it.
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https://youtu.be/V6DgCao4LPQ?si=6KYAQyTjoHhxf3XY

Veteran singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo has built a deep catalog that draws inspiration from a rootsy sound based on indie rock and alt country, mixed with powerful storytelling.

Find out more about his music at https://thepropagandasite.com/artist/alejandro-escovedo

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#NowPlaying I am currently listening to Pale Blue Eyes (Live) by #AlejandroEscovedo from the album #ThirteenYears see #spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/2WSItkCyDh0AqlTQ7NK9oH

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Melle, Honerkamps Ballsaal, 03.12.2011

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Alejandro Escovedo:
🎵 Bury Me

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https://watermelonrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bury-me

https://open.spotify.com/track/6NkrE88z2deAJh5Ywg9Hml

If you haven’t listened to it, Marc Maron interviewed Alejandro Escovedo earlier this year and it’s a pretty interesting interview about his life and work (http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1526-alejandro-escovedo).
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The legendary Escovedo family (Juan Escovedo, Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo, Alejandro Escovedo and Sheila Escovedo)- so great they’re on this playlist (https://youtu.be/fibMiXZGNYk?si=4A-JupQpof9dbeEM) twice (https://youtu.be/V3FNfxW7j0o?si=jH6ZLhE2iBUzNawx)
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Alejandro Escovedo:
🎵 Always a Friend

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https://open.spotify.com/track/7jks9PIkGKjVTZI1M2Inyt

Listen to this track by American punk pioneer and roots-rock storyteller Alejandro Escovedo. It’s “Outlaw for You”, a jagged slab of ornery rock ‘n’ roll taken from his 2018 release The Crossing and subsequently on the Spanish-language version of that record, La Cruzada. Throughout the album, the songs tell the story of two immigrant young men to the United States, Diego from Mexico and Salvo from Italy, who travel to find America and themselves.

Over the course of the record, they experience America from the outside, forming their own version of the American Dream that isn’t always as rosy as pop culture portrays it to be. This theme was arrived at very honestly, informed by Escovedo’s own Mexican roots entwined with that of his chosen backing band, Don Antonio, who hail all the way from Tuscany. Escovedo and the band met while on tour in Italy, becoming fast friends, and recognizing that Latinx culture in Texas and Italian culture in the Tuscan region share a lot of common elements, with a love of music being one.

Somewhere in the considerable rock ‘n’ roll swagger of this song, and in the narrative on which the album as a whole is based, lies a story about finding one’s identity as a young person striking out on one’s own. It also touches on how doing that in a wider culture where one is an outsider can be a thorny path.

On this cut, that unified passion for great music between Escovedo and band comes out in no uncertain terms. “Outlaw for You” certainly references the significant contributions made by Latinx rock musicians, with Question Mark and the Mysterians in particular being heavily referenced in the chugging Vox Continental organ department. Other references to Johnny Thunders and the early glam-punk days of the New York Dolls make appearances as well. This mirrors Escvedo’s own musical journey in becoming a punk himself around the same time, culminating with his band The Nuns opening for the Sex Pistols at the latter’s final concert appearance in 1978 at San Francisco’s famous Winterland Theatre.

One can hear that raucous spirit in this tune along with tough countrified rock textures that sound like they’re filtered through the half-opened windows of an Austin Texas roadhouse on a sultry summer night. With its earthy musical backdrop, “Outlaw for You” is an anthem to on-page, on-screen, and on-vinyl rebels of American culture from Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, to James Dean and Iggy Pop. Thrown in for good measure, the song also references Cesar Chavez and Emiliano Zapata, these latter figures being actual rebels, and not simply ones who serve as symbols for rebellion.

With that disparity in mind, “Outlaw for You” is a song about the myths and icons of resistance and the space they take up on the American cultural landscape. It’s about a young person’s tendency to take on the costuming of those myths to find something true about themselves.

In subtext though, the song also touches on what acceptable rebellion and outlawry looks like in mainstream culture, and what it does not. One is romantic and even aspirational. The other is simply a threat.

To be the former, one must already be on the inside.

For Diego and Salvo in Escovedo’s overarching story on the album, this remains something of a handicap. This is particularly true for Diego; a visible immigrant who’s perceived as a stranger in a strange land. For a person of his background to be an outlaw, or even to dress up like one, holds grave implications in ways that do not apply for those with the right profile to match the image of what a “real” American looks like.

At the same time, this song contains a spirit of defiance against those arbitrary rules about who gets to be the romantic outlaw and who doesn’t. In Diego’s voice, Escovedo sings with a theatrical sneer as he claims the birthright of American iconoclasm to which he and those who look like him are entitled as much as any. That element is a vital source of grit in this tune that otherwise rocks like a hurricane in a story about identity, culture, meaning, and connection.

In its basic form, that’s what rock n’ roll has always been about; the questioning of oppressive rules and exploring the avenues necessary to undermine them.

Alejandro Escovedo is an active musician and songwriter today. Learn more about him, listen to his music, get merch, and even donate to him at alejandroescovedo.com.

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