Subject: Alejandro Escovedo

• Give Us a Hand

  October 9, 2007

• Thursday Night: Umbrella Man at the Big Top

  April 8, 2008

• Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

  April 11, 2008

• Has ACL Festival Jumped the Shark?

  April 15, 2008

• The Wayback Machine: Five, Ten and 15 Years Ago in Houston Music

  May 19, 2008

• This Just In: Alejandro Escovedo Up Close

  July 30, 2008

• ACL Notebook Dump, Pt. 1: Gentrification, Acid, Obama Shirts and More

  September 29, 2008

• Silent Type

  The multitalented Alejandro Escovedo prefers to let the music do the talking

  January 18, 2001

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: 2008's Heavy Rotation

  For the second (third?) year in a row, LOM didn't vote in either the Nashville Scene's best of country music poll or the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop best of American music poll. I'm just not a good list-maker. Detest that stuff. Just trying to compile a list of possibles makes my brain hate me. Anyway, I rarely get serviced by the major labels, and I don't listen to the radio stations that kowtow to the major labels, so I don't feel I have much context in which to wrestle with the important

  December 30, 2008

• Press Picks

  April 21, 1994

• Debonair Whigs

  April 21, 1994

• Beck's Prime

  June 16, 1994

• The Lame and the Great

  December 22, 1994

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Miss Leslie Takes Top Honors in Freeform Americana Radio Awards

  Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, "Yes Ma'am" Houston's own Miss Leslie Sloan of Miss Leslie and Her Jukejointers was tipped for a slew of honors in the most recent Best of 2008 voting by FAR (Freeform Americana Radio) members. She was voted Female Artist of the Year over Eliza Gilkyson and Carrie Rodriguez, and Songwriter of the Year over another Houstonian, Hayes Carll. Leslie's Between the Whiskey and the Wine took home top album honors, while Carll's Trouble In Mind was slotted at No

  January 9, 2009

• Press Picks

  March 30, 1995

• Annual Pazz & Jop Results Released

  Congrats, TV on the Radio! This morning our sister paper in Manhattan's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop poll, where hundreds of music writers and editors rank their favorite albums of the past year in what has to be an absolute nightmare for the people who actually compile the thing. Participants are given 100 points to among their favorite ten albums and singles. Check it out here. Unsurprisingly, TV on the Radio's Dear Science - which top

  January 21, 2009

• Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

  Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Terry Allen, Charlie Sexton and former Afghan Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli. Sahm's two sons, Shandon and Shawn, are also featured on Keep Your Soul. Shandon, who now fronts his own heav

  January 21, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney

  Chris Gaffney Right on the heels of Wednesday's announcement of Vanguard's new Doug Sahm tribute album comes Yep Roc's tribute to Chris Gaffney, The Man of Somebody's Dreams. Ironically, it includes some of the same high-profile roots artists who pay tribute to Sahm: Dave Alvin, Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo. Gaffney was a Southern California barroom legend, the kind of player and man for whom the cliché "musician's musician" was coined.    Before he died of liver

  January 23, 2009

• Bruce Springsteen Confirms Second Houston Show in a Year

  Alejandro Escovedo with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band,"Always a Friend," Toyota Center, April 14, 2008 After last year's sold-out show that ended with both Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely duetting with the Boss, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are headed back to Houston for their second show within a year April 8 at Toyota Center. See the Press' review of last April's show here. Springsteen's official Web site announced the tour, supporting

  January 27, 2009

• Hillbilly Revenge

  April 11, 1996

• Rotation

  March 20, 1997

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• SXSW: Austin Music Awards at Austin Music Hall

  Photos by Mark C. AustinAustin is full of ghosts, and not just at the Driskill Hotel. (Say hi to LBJ's mistress for us, though, those of you staying there.) Some of the ghosts aren't even dead. Take the Dicks (above), Austin's early-'80s hardcore trail-blazers who reconvened to play Wednesday night's Austin Music Awards and be inducted into the AMAs' Texas Music Hall of Fame - by X's Exene Cervenka, no less.Recognized today as one of the primary cornerstones of Texas punk, the Dicks' five-song s

  March 19, 2009

• Top Five SXSW Performances

  Chris Gray Black Joe Lewis and a couple of HoneybearsWell, thank God that's over. SXSW 09 is history now, so before we completely block it out of our mind for another 11 months, here's Rocks Off's top five reasons it was worth going to after all. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women: L.A. roots-rocker and all-star band honored his late best friend Chris Gaffney with roadhouse fire, Cajun zeal and honky-tonk sensitivity. Austin Music Awards: The Dicks, Alejandro Escovedo, the Fire

  March 23, 2009

• Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra

  March 19, 2009

• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in Song

  January 15, 2009

• 2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

  January 1, 2009

• New Year's Resolutions from a Few Big Musical Names

  January 1, 2009

• Various Artists: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

  April 16, 2009

• Turkey Trot

  Artists choose the songs that rocked their 2008 worlds

  November 27, 2008

• Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal

  July 10, 2008

• Americans Recording Mexican Songs

  The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

  May 22, 2008

• Chuck Prophet

  January 17, 2008

• Return of the Alt-Country King

  August 10, 2006

• The Got-It-Good Blues

  Then and now with Tony Vega

  August 3, 2006

• The Examined Life

  After a brush with death, Alejandro Escovedo cleans up, digs deep and resurfaces with a gem

  June 1, 2006

• Playbill

  December 16, 2004

• Best Music Store

  September 23, 2004

• Rallying Round Al

  Houston pitches in to help an ailing Austinite; also: Dennis Kucinich hits the hip-hop hustings

  December 11, 2003

• Peter Case

  Friday, September 26

  September 25, 2003

• Debt Releaf

  Cigarette companies get crafty

  August 3, 2000

• Rum Punk

  Though Alejandro Escovedo has kicked the booze, he still churns out symphonic hardcore

  June 10, 1999

• Balancing Act

  Alejandro Escovedo teeters between rock and restraint

  August 1, 1996

• Picks

  January 6, 1994

• End Game

  This is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, not with a bang but a ... year-end roundup

  December 23, 1993

• Aftermath: The Krayolas at Cactus Music

  Photos by Chris Gray The coolest band in Houston this weekend couldn't find a club or venue to play. Not at night, anyway - San Antonio's the Krayolas did manage to play Dan Electro's during Saturday afternoon's live broadcast of KPFT's Joe's Roadhouse, and Cactus Music an hour or two thereafter. If you have any idea who Joe "King" Carrasco is - the Dumas-born rocker who fooled MTV and Stiff Records into thinking his Tex-Mex party music was New Wave in the early '80s - you would have loved the K

  June 22, 2009

• Monday MP3s: Two from LL Cooper's Tucson

  When it comes to salt-of-the-earth working-class roots-rock, groups (especially around Houston) don't come much more solid than LL Cooper, the semi-eponymous band led by Houston/Austin roots vet Larry Cooper. "For my money, very few acts sound better accompanying a round of Lone Stars in a smoky bar," the Press' Nicholas L. Hall wrote about Cooper's 2007 debut, Old Hardin Store Road. Although Cooper's lyrics can be pretty sobering, Rocks Off has to agree. (The band's cover of the Rolling Stones'

  July 6, 2009

• Sahm Does Sahm

  July 23, 2009

• Peter Case benefit

  July 30, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Amy Farris

  ​Fiddler Amy Farris, an Austin native who played most recently with Dave Alvin's Guilty Women band, died last weekend in Los Angeles. Information is still sketchy at this point, but a press release from Yep Roc Records Wednesday stated that Farris had passed away Sept. 26 "after battling a long illness." She was 40. Austin360.com also reported Farris's passing, but noted there was a suspicion of suicide, although the cause of death had not been determined. Farris had been a legal secretary in

  October 1, 2009