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Alejandro Escovedo
Christopher Rees
Presented by: Empty Room Promotions| 0 | TINGEWICK: Village Hall |
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| P | Friday 14th October, 2011 |
| N | 7:30pm |
Event information
I am so pleased to be getting Alejandro (The King of Austin) Escovedo back again, this time performing as a duo with his long term guitarist David Pulkingham. I have seen Alejandro perform many times now, with a big band, a trio, a string quintet, a duo and he always gives a superb performance. Believe me he and David make a magical musical pairing. It is hard to think that just two of them can make such a huge and exciting sound.
Alejandro Escovedo is one with his muse and his music. Over a lifetime spent traversing the bridge between words and melody, he has ranged over an emotional depth that embraces all forms of genre and presentation, a resolute voice that weathers the emotional terrain of our lives, its celebrations and despairs, landmines and blindsides and upheavals and beckoning distractions, in search for ultimate release and the healing truth of honesty.
It is a journey that has taken him from Texas to California to New York and back again to Texas, encompassing a breadth of music as varied as the many bands he was part of before embarking on a solo career. In the 1970s, he surfaced on San Francisco’s no-holds-barred punk scene centered around the Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, a guitarist in the Nuns; Rank & File helped unite the disparate worlds of punk and country in the 1980s; and after he moved back to Austin, the True Believers combined all manner of Americana music in a harbinger of what was to come in Alejandro’s solo career which begun in 1992 with the album ‘Gravity’. Since then he has released a number of tremendous albums, culminating in, ‘Street Songs of Love’, which was written in collaboration with Chuck Prophet, as was his previous CD ‘Real Animal’ and features guest vocals from Bruce Springsteen and Ian Hunter. Alejandro is managed by the same company that looks after Mr. Springsteen.
www.alejandroescovedo.com
www.myspace.com/alejandroescovedo
Venue information
TINGEWICK: Village Hall| 0 | Near Buckingham Tingewick MK18 4NN |
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| > | www.empty-rooms.com |
| ! | 01296 748268 |
