Alejandro Escovedo With Don Antonio - The Crossing flac album

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The Crossing by Alejandro Escovedo, released 14 September 2018 1. Andare 2. Footsteps in the Shadows 3. Texas Is My Mother 4. Teenage Luggage 5. Something Blue 6. Outlaw for You 7. Amor Puro 8. Waiting for Me 9. How Many Times 10. Cherry Blossom Rain 11. Sonica USA 1. Not only is it Alejandro’s first album with Yep Roc it is his first album recorded in Europe. He co-wrote and performed it with Italian band Don Antonio from Mogdilana led by guitarist and composer Antonio Gramentieri who has a rich musical history of his own in Italy with his cult band Sacri Cuori. The album was recorded in a month in Villafranca, Italy with Brian Deck co-producing

Tough yet tender, capable of conveying defiance and vulnerability in the same breath, Escovedo has a plainspoken charisma.

Nancy Rankin Escovedo. Alejandro Escovedo is the picture of cool as he walks into Grimey’s record shop in Nashville one bright and sunny weekday afternoon in September. Dressed in a black suit and black cowboy boots with a cravat tucked into his shirt collar, he casts a wary glance around the room where he and his band are about to play an in-store performance. His new LP, The Crossing, which came out in September on Yep Roc Records, is a sprawling concept album about two immigrants. One, named Salvo, is from Italy, and the other, Diego, is from Mexico. Antonio Gramentieri, the singer and guitarist for Don Antonio, already had a deep admiration for Escovedo, who’s 20 years his senior. For my upbringing, people like Los Lobos, which I got into a little before I got into Alejandro, were crucial.

Escovedo wrote these songs in collaboration with Italian rock musician Antonio Gramentiere, with Gramentiere and his band Don Antonio providing the backing, and the partnership proves to be inspired, with the musicians tackling the multiple influences and shifting moods of this music with passion and aplomb. And Escovedo has brought in some impressive guests for these sessions, including Wayne Kramer of the MC5, James Williamson of Iggy & the Stooges, Peter Perrett and John Perry of the Only Ones, and Joe Ely (who lends harmonies to a beautiful cover of his song "Silver City").

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Another terrific recent album also resulted from travel to Italy. Alejandro Escovedo’s The Crossing was not only recorded in Villafranca, Italy, with the Italian instrumental-rock band Don Antonio, but it was also co-written by Escovedo and Don Antonio’s Antonio Gramentieri. Italy, of course, is now caught in its own immigration crisis, and Escovedo, the son of illegal immigrants to America, was able to get a new perspective on these issues by viewing it through a European as well North American window ) It was one of the best albums of last autumn, and it couldn’t have h. .

This song appears on Alejandro Escovedo's great new album "The Crossing" released 14 September 2018. This man is a national treasure! This great acoustic version was on a conference panel of the Americana Music Association entitled "Deportees, Woody Guthrie, and Immigration Today. Other panelists included Radney Foster, Will Hoge, historian Mark Fernandez, and Deana McCloud of theWoody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Alejandro Escovedo is the picture of cool as he walks into Grimey’s record shop in Nashville one bright and sunny weekday afternoon in September. In one hand is his guitar case, and at his other arm is his wife Nancy, who sports a matching pair of dark sunglasses.

The San Antonio native crafted a new batch of songs with Italian rock musician Antonio Gramentieri for a poignant and cathartic album. Antonio and I believe the story we’re telling is timeless, Escovedo said in an interview with The News & Observer while calling from Austin. It’s not just about now and the unfortunate craziness with Donald Trump. People have moved for essential reasons, better weather, for food  . Who: Alejandro Escovedo Band with Don Antonio.