🗓️ 25th anniversary (April 24, 2001)
💿 Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence
🎶 It's all about this love/ It's all about this pain/ It's all about the loss/ We take to live again
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Review and photos from @alescovedo and Peter Buck at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. #AlejandroEscovedo #MagicBag <a href="http://jaspersailfin.zenfolio.com/blog/2014/2/alejandro-escovedo-and-peter-buck-at-the-magic-bag" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://jaspersailfin.zenfolio.com/blog/2014/2/alejandro-escovedo-and-peter-buck-at-the-magic-bag

Alejandro frequently tells the story about two lovers separated by hundreds of miles, and their longing for each other, as told in their daily letters for years.

"Rosalie" from the brilliant A Man Under the influence.
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From an all-time favorite, Alejandro Escovedo, his 2005 live double album, Room of Songs. Here's "Way It Goes". It's different, but it works. Give it a listen!

Especially tasty with headphones 😍
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1/ Punk pioneer, cowpunk founder, alt-country and roots-rock singer/songwriter/musician, but I know what you're thinking - can also rock a string quintet?

HECK YES!!

"Baby's Got New Plans"
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"Way It Goes"
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Last one for tonight - this is "This Bed Is Getting Crowded" from his 2010 album Street Songs of Love. I hope you enjoyed this birthday tribute to a wonderful musician and a great guy, and I hope you give a listen to Alejandro's material!
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10/ Life on the road was catching up, and a 1997 diagnosis of Hep. C, he continued to tour and drink. Three years later, he collapsed at a performance in Arizona. This song is about that experience. Here's "Arizona" from The Boxing Mirror.
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9/ Next is one of my favorites from his 2001 album, A Man Under the influence. It's a love song, loosely based on a true story that Alejandro tells so well at his live shows. Anyway, here's "Rosalie". The brilliant Eric Heywood on pedal steel.
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8/ Next up is "Crooked Frame", featuring lead guitar from the late, great Joe Eddy Hines, and is from Alejandro's 1996 album, With These Hands.
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7/ Next up is "Pyramid of Tears" from his first solo album, Gravity.
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6/ Over the next few posts of this thread, I'll be posting some of my favorites from Alejandro's long career. Thanks for reading!

First up is a rocker from Buick MacKane called "The End". Best enjoyed LOUD 😁
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5/ double album Gravity. Over the next 31 years, Alejandro would release a total of 18 albums, many of them critically acclaimed.

Alejandro is one of my all time favorite artists. We never miss him when he comes to town and every show is special.
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4/ forming Buick MacKane, a glam-rock influenced band occasionally referred to as 'the best band in town' with brother Javier, the band would release one album, The Pawn Shop Years and then dissolve. In 1991, Alejandro released his first solo effort, the
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3/ with the punk band The Nuns. In the 80s, Alejandro moved to Austin and the flourishing music scene there. After a stint with Rank and File, he started the Cow-Punk band, True Believers with younger brother Javier. The band would break up in 1988, and after
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2/ Sheila Escovedo, would go on to a pop career as Sheila E, and enjoy a solo career and also played in Prince's band occasionally. Younger brother Javier (punk, rock) and Mario (hard rock) also became musicians.

Alejandro's career began in the early 70s,
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1/ On this day, Jan. 10th, in 1951, Alejandro Escovedo was born in San Antonio, TX. One of 12 brothers and sisters, he was born into a musical family. Brothers Pete and Coke played Latin and Jazz and both played in Santana's band at one point. Pete's daughter,
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'With These Hands' (1996) by Alejandro Escovedo is my disc of the day.
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14/365

Artist: Alejandro Escovedo
Album: Street Songs of Love
Song: This Bed is Getting Crowded

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