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Bourbonitis Blues (CD)

By: Alejandro Escovedo (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Bourbonitis Blues (CD) Album By Alejandro Escovedo (Artist)
1   I Was Drunk
2   Irene Wilde
3   California Blues
4   Guilty
5   Amsterdam
6   Everybody Loves Me
7   Pale Blue Eyes
8   Sacramento & Polk
9   Sex Beat
 

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Review

CMJ (4/19/99, p.5) - "...Escovedo's warm, richly melancholic vocals only increase the emotional punch of these tales of inner turmoil....Escovedo's legend is finally - and deservedly - spreading far beyond his Texas homeland."
Guitar Magazine (7/99, pp.99-100) - "...Escovedo still leans hard and heavy on the rail....[his] originals...ring loudest with bitter truths."

Title Note

Personnel: Alejandro Escovedo (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Jon Langford (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kelly Hogan (vocals); Chris Stamey (guitar, bass, harmonium); Joe Eddy Hines (acoustic & electric guitars); Bill McCullough (pedal steel); David Perales (violin, background vocals); Brian Standefer (cello); Melissa Swingle (harmonica, background vocals); Glenn Fukunaga, Tom V. Ray (bass); Chris Phillips (drums, percussion); Hector Munoz (drums).

Engineers include: Tim Harper, Chris Stamey, Alan Durham.

Recorded at Modern Recordings, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Bassett Sound, Austin, Texas; and live at FitzGerald's, Berwyn, Illinois.

Alejandro Escovedo has an impressive resume: he was a member of one of the first San Francisco punk bands, the Nuns, and was in one of the early country-punk bands, Rank & File, as well as the under-rated Austin roots-rockers the True Believers. He's related to both Pete Escovedo and Sheila E, and on his WITH THESE HANDS (Rykodisc) album, his backup included Willie Nelson and Jennifer Warnes. On BOURBONITIS BLUES, he mixes evocative originals ("I Was Drunk," "Sacramento & Polk") with well-chosen and unusual covers (John Cale's "Amsterdam," a tantalizingly slow take on the Gun Club's "Sex Beat," Ian Hunter's "Irene Wilde") to show his scope as an artist.

Escovedo shows a rare grasp of rock & roll history, and the blues and country roots it sprang from. Moreover, he doesn't merely rehash/recycle the past, he builds on it. His originals are thoughtful and intensely personal but never self-absorbed, and they rock with a controlled passion that recalls the Rolling Stones in their early 1970s prime. Alejandro Escovedo proves that late-night raunch can be put across with sensitivity (the instrumentation includes cello and pedal steel guitar) and quiet, introspective songs can have a sharp, hidden edge.

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