Alejandro Escovedo

   
Artist: Alejandro Escovedo

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Rock
   Other
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The Boxing Mirror

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 16 Acoustic Songs

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Por Vida: a Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 With These Hands [Bonus Disc] Disc 2

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 A Man Under the Influence

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 84 Various Tracks

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 84


   
 More Miles Than Money: Live 1994-96

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 With These Hands

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Gravity

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


   
 Live At The Loft Part 1 and 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 2

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Alejandro Escovedo's family tree includes former Santana percussionist Pete Escovedo and Pete's female child Sheila E (as well Prince's previous drummer and afterwards a come out star). He began his music calling with the Nuns, a mid-'70s punk rock band based in San Francisco. He co-founded the pioneering cowpunk ring Rank and Charge in 1979, which affected to Capital of Texas, TX, in 1981 after a genus Erolia minutilla in Fresh York City. The band released Sunset on Slash Records in 1982, simply shortly after, Escovedo left to cast the True Believers with blood brother Javier. The band recorded 2 albums for EMI and toured the state, frequently as an enterprisingness act for Los Lobos. All the same, EMI opted not to discharge the minute album, which finally light-emitting diode to the group's adjournment. (It last surfaced as a fillip point when Rykodisc reissued the number one set on CD in 1994.) Escovedo released a solo album in 1992 on Citrullus vulgaris Records, Gravitation, amalgamation his wide variety testify of styles; the album was produced by Stephen Bruton of Bonnie Raitt's ring. Escovedo too began gigging sporadically with the band Buick MacKane, which amalgamated old school tinder with '70s glam sway; afterward Rykodisc released Escovedo's With These Hands in 1996, they followed it up with Buick MacKane's long-awaited album. After Escovedo parted shipway with Rykodisc, he sign in 1998 with the Chicago-based alt-country label Bloodshot, which released the live album More Miles Than Money: Experience 1994-1996 and the acclaimed studio set A Gentleman's gentleman Under the Influence. In April 2003, Escovedo collapsed next a guide in Phoenix, AZ, later which it was later on revealed that he had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C in late '90s just had non sought manipulation. An spring of software documentation from musicians lED to a series of successful benefit concerts to help pay Escovedo's medical examination expenses and observe his music in front man the public, followed by a tribute record album, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo, which was released in 2004.





David Kilgour