Alejandro Escovedo

Watch Austin City Limits performances from Wilco, Lucinda, Alejandro and more

January 10, 2022 Mark Whitfield 2

Lucinda Williams, Wilco, and Alejandro Escovedo were all inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame back in October last year, and on Saturday the ceremony premiered in the US on PBS stations with an […]

Lucinda Williams and Wilco join Austin City Limits Hall of Fame

July 9, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Austin City Limits has announced the 2021 inductees into its Austin City Limits Hall of Fame which include Americana icons Wilco, Lucinda Williams, and Texas singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo. There were no 2020 inductees because of the pandemic […]

Alejandro Escovedo “Algo Azul” – escuchar!

June 25, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Algo Azul‘ is taken from Escovedo’s album ‘La Cruzada; which is released on August 27th, via Yep Roc. It might sound somewhat familiar – it’s the Spanish language edition of the 2018 album ‘The Crossing‘, it […]

Classic Americana albums: Alejandro Escovedo “Gravity” (Watermelon Records, 1992)

October 14, 2020 Paul Kerr 2

After a decade and a half of recording with a series of bands (including The Nuns, who opened for The Sex Pistols USA tour) and gradually mutating from punk to Americana, Alejandro Escovedo finally emerged fully-grown […]

Kilkenny Roots Festival announces line-up for 2019

March 5, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The multiple award-winning songwriter Patty Griffin, legendary Texan roots rocker Alejandro Escovedo and former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle are heading up what can only be described as a fairly stellar line-up for the 2019 Kilkenny Roots […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Personal best from a Champion of the World. A long-time sideman with Danny and the Champions of the World, Australian guitarist Paul Lush has lived in London for over twenty-five years, playing gigs far and wide […]

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A stunning and important work of historical research set to some of the best folk tunes you’ll hear this year. This is a project that has been in the planning since 2018. Meuross says of it: […]

Watch Austin City Limits performances from Wilco, Lucinda, Alejandro and more

Lucinda Williams and Wilco join Austin City Limits Hall of Fame

Alejandro Escovedo “Algo Azul” – escuchar!

Classic Americana albums: Alejandro Escovedo “Gravity” (Watermelon Records, 1992)

Kilkenny Roots Festival announces line-up for 2019

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”