Entries tagged with “Alejandro Escovedo”

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Year-end lists of the best albums of the past 12 months are cruel, because either you'll go bankrupt buying all these fantastic records or you'll resent how much great music you're missing because you can't afford to buy them.

I'm not typically a nice person, but these are the holidays, so my year-end list is something that most anybody can afford. I've selected and sequenced 15 favorite songs (by 15 lesser-known artists) from 2006 and — in 11 cases — provided Web addresses where you can download or at least listen to the song for free. The remainder can be purchased from iTunes (and, most likely, other download sites). And it'll all fit on a single CD (if you're still into that sort of thing).

My recording of Alejandro Escovedo's one-hour set at River Roots Live in Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday, September 23, 2006.

I changed a few settings for Saturday's recording, and I think it sounds better. I'd love to get some feedback in the comments section of this entry and the Martin Sexton recording I posted yesterday. I'm trying to see if projects such as this are worth your and my time.

It is in times of crisis that a person learns who his or her true friends are. Alejandro Escovedo discovered he has a lot of friends.

Even if you haven't heard of Escovedo, you've likely heard of them: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Los Lonely Boys, the Cowboy Junkies, Son Volt, Charlie Musselwhite, Lucinda Williams, Calexico, Steve Earle. Those people and more than two dozen others cut tracks for Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo. The goal wasn't merely to honor the man, or just to offset some of his medical bills, but to perhaps save his life.

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