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Alejandro Escovedo has been making memorable music of one kind or another since the mid-'70s, but it wasn't until he released his first solo album in 1992, Gravity, that he began to reveal the full extent of his gifts as a songwriter. A lyricist with a remarkable ability to find subtle beauties and difficult truths in the stuff of everyday lives, Escovedo also has a superb ear for a melody, whether he is writing for a small acoustic group or a roaring full-on rock band, and Gravity was nothing short of a revelation, with his subsequent albums only confirming Escovedo's talent. Given the almost dizzying variety of artists and styles encompassed on Por Vida, what's most remarkable about the album is how consistent it is; the quality of these songs is a given, but the performances are strong and emphatic from front to back, as if the musicians wanted to be sure that they gave the songs the interpretations they deserved.

Format: 2 CD, Album. Country: US. Released: Jul 2004. Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country. Sheila E. And Pete Escovedo. The Ballad Of The Sun And Moon. 2-5. –The Chris Stamey Experience.

This effort grew into the album Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo, a two-disc set whose proceeds benefit the Alejandro Escovedo Medical and Living Expense Fund. Contributing musicians included Steve Earle, Jon Dee Graham, Lucinda Williams, John Cale, Jennifer Warnes, Ian Hunter, the Jayhawks, Bob Neuwirth, Son Volt, and Escovedo's brothers Pete (with Pete's daughter, Sheila ., Javier, and Mario (as a member of the Dragons). In June 2010, Escovedo released Street Songs of Love, also produced by Visconti but released on a new label, featuring songs that were originally presented during "Sessions on South Congress" at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas with his band, The Sensitive Boys.

The best thing about "Por Vida," however, is Escovedo's songs. He has penned everything from the languid mambo "Inside This Dance" to the pure rawk of "I Was Drunk. It's a sure sign of Escovedo's rock legacy that his friends can use his songs to create an album as powerful as this on. PVV. Billboard biz. The online extension of Billboard Magazine, billboard. biz is the essential online destination for the music business.

TAGS: Various Artists. A diverse double-disc tribute/benefit for the celebrated Texas songwriter, who’s been sidelined with Hepatitis C since 2003. Escovedo, swerving from orchestral/chamber experimentalism to dusty country/folk to dirty rock ‘n’ roll, embodies every impulse to which roots-rockers and indie-minded popsters aspire. Prestigious artists from Lucinda Williams to John Cale pay homage here.

Alejandro Escovedo's songs are the tango of love, push and pull, roses and neurosis. Stamping boots, pounding passion. Love and hope and sex and dreams. Still surviving on Main Street, the Austin icon has been exiled from stage and studio for more than a year now, shattered by hepatitis C. Illness is nothing if not a watershed of friends and family, and 31 tracks from three dozen celebrated songwriters attest to the love and respect the music community at large has for Escovedo. Por Vida will never usurp Escovedo's Gravity, With These Hands, or A Man Under the Influence, but veteran fans will want this collection because it and AlejandroFund. com are currently the best ways to extend aid to one particular vida.

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