Artist Alejandro Escovedo
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Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo has reached the age where songwriters tend to ruminate heavily on their pasts or try to rock out like their younger selves. Commendably, Escovedo has chosen to do both, while managing to avoid the inherent pitfalls. He came close to dying (during a battle with hepatitis C), pondered his mortality on 2006’s lavishly dark The Boxing Mirror, and then fired up the guitars for 2008’s joyous Real Animal. Led by the single “Anchor”—whose chorus finds Escovedo dryly declaring, “I’m in love with love”—2010’s Tony Visconti-produced Street Songs Of Love both considers and celebrates matters of the heart. It’s a little too polished for its own good, but Escovedo will hopefully add some grit in concert.
Updated 01/04/2012
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