Alejandro Escovedo, meanwhile, planted on the walkway out front of his former place of employment, looks like he's getting ready to rob the place. Tight black T-shirt stretched on taught crimson skin, ...

Ask Alejandro Escovedo how he is capable of leaping between so many musical modes — with intense performances that have him breaking hearts one minute, snapping guitar strings the next — and he often ...

Alejandro Escovedo will tell you there’s been good times and bad times over the years, but if you ask the Austin-based singer-guitarist about one of the best, he’ll go back to when he was a ...

Friendship radiated from the guitars of Alejandro Escovedo and Antonio Gramentieri Monday night at Fountain Square’s Hi-Fi nightclub, where the musicians presented their 2018 album “The Crossing” in a ...

Just a few moments later — the threat grinding into bones with each siren shriek of the guitar — the same voice rises to shout, “Hey, Hey c’mon / I need you more than ever / Hey, Hey c’mon / We’re ...

1. Escovedo, 59, looked strong and healthy -- singing, playing guitar and fronting a four-piece band. If he has any lingering problems from a 2003 bout with Hepatitis-C, they certainly didn't affect ...

Once Austin housed a guitar SWAT team called the True Believers – Lynyrd Skynyrd run by Mexicans as born out of Andy Warhol’s Factory. Lou Reed, David Bowie, only roots huffing, Americana glam. At the ...

There’s a song on Alejandro Escovedo‘s new LP, Burn Something Beautiful, called “I Don’t Want to Play Guitar Anymore,” a scorching, doo-wop drip of a track that has the 65-year-old Texan’s fingers ...

It was meant to help pay his medical bills. A tribute album with musicians performing Alejandro Escovedo's songs arguably helped his health, too. The Austin singer-songwriter was trying to recover ...

Alejandro Escovedo’s career dates back to first-wave punk band The Nuns (San Francisco, circa 1975 — the same year the Sex Pistols got their start in London). By the ‘80s, he had relocated to Austin, ...

When Alejandro Escovedo was a boy in San Antonio, his parents had him pack for a vacation to Southern California. They didn't tell him the vacation was permanent. Belongings, friends and pets were ...