Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen Years
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Artist: Alejandro EscovedoEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Music Label: Texas Music Group
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Thirteen Years Theme
- Ballad Of The Sun And The Moon
- Try, Try, Try
- Way It Goes
- Losing Your Touch
- Thirteen Years
- Thirteen Years Theme
- Helpless
- Mountain Of Mud
- Tell Me Why
- Thirteen Years Theme
- She Towers Above
- Baby's Got New Plans
- The End
- Thirteen Years Theme
- Thirteen Years
- Way It Goes
- She Towers Above
- Tell Me Why
- Two Angels
- I Wish I Was Your Mother
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Gravity
Music reviews of Thirteen Years
Music Review: Harrowing. Roots rock to Soutwestern chamber music
Rating: 4 Stars
Vol 1. Concept album on his reaction to the suicide of his lover and the mother of his children. Harrowing if you pay attention. Unlike anything I have ever heard-like, maybe, chamber music by Gram Parsons. But Escovedo's voice is always more interesting. From powerful, roots-based rock & roll to strings-based whatever, from his own Chamber Southwest group. Standouts: tr 4-Way it goes (Country-rock anthem that grows from a quiet personal statement to something resonant and bigger. Lyric: "God bless the child that don't have a mother to put her to sleep."). tr 5-Losing your touch (slamming, anthemic rocker that might have come from the Midwest (Bob Seger) or the Stones). tr 10-Tell me while (seemingly from country weeper by Gram Parsons into Escoveda Chamber Southwest). tr 13-Baby's got new plans (anthem of personal loss with the resonance of a last Indian tribe in New Mexico). tr 14-The end (Lyric: "I've got some questions that need answering.... This is really the end.") [52:25]
Vol. 2. Tender, acoustic, elegiac tracks, including 4 instrumental takes on Vol. 1 tracks; 3 live versions of tracks not on Disc 1, and a rocking take on "Gravity". Stand-outs: tr 8-Helpless (slow funky strut that makes me think about Peggy Lee or the Blasters). tr 9-Mountain of mind (straight-ahead country rocker). [37:45]
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Description of Thirteen Years
Two CD edition of the singer/songwriter's 1994 release, the follow up to his Gravity album. On Thirteen years, Escovedo expanded his musical line up to include cellos, violins and harps, yet kept the rocking element intact. 'Losing Your Touch' features excellent guitar work from musical guest Charlie Sexton. Retroworld. 2009.More often than not, strings have often served as a wet blanket in rock & roll, smothering the rough edges and dampening the enthusiasm. There have been exceptions, though, when a small string section has been used sympathetically on rock & roll songs, sprucing up the rhythms and sharpening the tensions. Perhaps the best examples are the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," Van Morrison's "Cypress Avenue," Lou Reed's "Street Hassle," and Chic's "Good Times." Alejandro Escovedo's brilliant Thirteen Years is a landmark addition to the latter tradition. Unlike Elvis Costello's "Juliet Letters," which used a string quartet without a rock & roll rhythm section, Thirteen Years marries the dense, sustaining harmonies of the one to the implacable momentum of the other. --Geoffrey Himes
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