Alejandro Escovedo - Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo
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Artist: Alejandro EscovedoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Music Label: Or. Music
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Lucinda Williams - Pyramid of Tears
- Lenny Kaye - Sacramento & Polk
- Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly - Paradise
- Jon Langford and Sally Timms - Broken Bottle
- Calexico - Wave
- Jennifer Warnes - Pissed Off 2AM
- John Cale - She Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Los Lonely Boys - Castanets
- Cowboy Junkies - Don't Need You
- Charlie Sexton - Dear Head On the Wall
- Jon Dee Graham - Helpless\
- Howe Gelb - She Towers Above
- Ian McLagan and the Bump Band - Wedding Day
- Tres Chicas - Rhapsody
- Peter Case - The End
- Bob Neuwirth - Rosalie
- Section String Quartet - Crooked Frame
- Ian Hunter - One More Time
- Jayhawks - Last to Know
- Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra - Velvet Guitar
- Sheila E. and Pete Escovedo - The Ballad of the Sun and Moon
- The Chris Stamey Experience - One True Love
- Son Volt - Sometimes
- Rosie Flores - Inside This Dance
- Charlie Musselwhite - Everybody Loves Me
- M. Ward with Vic Chesnutt & Howe Gelb - Way It Goes
- Javier Escovedo - The Rain Won't Help
- Caitlin Cary - By Eleven
- Minus 5 - I Was Drunk
- The Dragons - Gravity
- Ruben Ramos - Thirteen Years
- Alejandro Escovedo - Break This Time
Music reviews of Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo
Music Review: Solid, solid stuff
Rating: 5 Stars
I never thought I'd give a tribute album five stars, but I also never thought I'd hear a tribute album that was damn near musical alchemy. The songs are done well, avoiding the twin traps covers usually fall into, i.e., carbon copies of the originals or unrecognizable rewrites. Opens with a real one two punch Lucinda Williams' doing Pyramid of Tears and Lenny Kaye doing Sacramento and Polk. A few tracks later we have Calexico's version of Wave, a beautifully restrained piece worth the price of admission on its own. Los Lonely Boys, usually not really my thing, do a pretty fun cover of castanets. The Cowboy Junkies' make don't need you practically bleed with pathos, in a good way, followed by Charlie Sexton covering Dear Head On The Wall, which kinda sounds like Soul Asylum (again, in a good way). Even the tracks I enjoyed the least were still high quality stuff. I'm not a musician or a music critic but I'm also not prone to gushing over my favorite stuff; but this is great.
Description of Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo
Stricken with Hepatitis C in April 2003 and lacking health insurance, Alejandro Escovedo has been the focus of scores of benefit concerts in Austin, Texas, and across the U.S. These 32 songs offer further aid--and a dizzying, daring appraisal of a brilliant, if commercially hard-luck, songwriter. Opening with Lucinda Williams's slurred, Spartan electric groove, the set covers the obscure ("Sacramento & Polk," in a manic paranoid take by Lenny Kaye) and the exquisite (the road-weary ballad "Thirteen Years," in a stately, aching reading by Tejano legend Ruben Ramos). Those familiar with the restless style-shifting of Escovedo's career won't be surprised by the juxtaposition of Ian Hunter's bar-band strut with the Jayhawks' psychedelic wall of delay, or Peter Case's glam garage with Bob Neuwirth's unguarded, accordion-laced sigh. Surprises include a poignant vocal turn from keyboard legend Ian McLagan, a reunited and stunningly revived Son Volt, and Escovedo himself, charging through a new tempo-twisting rocker cut just before he fell ill. There is tangible enthusiasm, even love, in the performances of these wildly diverse admirers. --Roy KastenGeneral CDs
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