Alejandro Escovedo

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Styles: Roots Rock, Americana, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock, Progressive Country
Biography: Alejandro Escovedo's family tree includes former Santana percussionist Pete Escovedo and Pete's daughter Sheila E (also Prince's former drummer and later a pop star). He began his music career with the Nuns, a mid-'70s punk band based in San Francisco. He co-founded the pioneering cowpunk band Rank and ...Read full biography
Gravity [Bonus Disc]
Released: 2002
Label: Texas Music Group
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While Alejandro Escovedo had shown plenty of versatility over the first 15 years of his career in music -- playing with early punk ravers the Nuns, prescient alt-country upstarts Rank and File, and roots ...Read full review
Real Animal
Released: 2008
Label: Back Porch/Manhattan
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It may be simplistic to describe Alejandro Escovedo's 2006 album The Boxing Mirror as a record inspired by the artist's brush with death, but given the record's back story -- it was recorded as Escovedo ...Read full review
More Alejandro Escovedo albums: Main Albums (13), Singles & EPs (1)
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