Alejandro Escovedo - Bourbonitis Blues
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Artist: Alejandro EscovedoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Music Label: Bloodshot Records
Soundtracks:
- I Was Drunk
- Irene Wilde
- California Blues
- Guilty
- Amsterdam
- Everybody Loves Me
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Sacramento & Polk
- Sex Beat
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Free Music Review: If these are the blues, let me have 'em!
Hit: 5 Stars
I first had the pleasure of seeing Alejandro Escovedo playing Stones covers at a "hoot night" show in Austin, Texas, back in 1989, and later got a chance to actually meet him. He has never put on a bad show, mixing his dozens of musical influences---British rock, southern American country and Delta blues, punk, folk, mariachi, even classical---into a kind of sonic gumbo of different things that taste amazingly good. He is also an incredibly charismatic performer, when you see him doing his own thing, or with his band, Buick McKane; this guy can do a blistering cover of "Hot Legs" by Rod Stewart, and then follow it with an alt-country song so mournful you can feel his sadness seeping into your very pores. "Bourbonitis Blues" is a terrific example of his great talent, soul, musical inventiveness, and instrumental virtuosity; his songwriting craft is beyond brilliant, and he never seems to run dry of ability to sing, play, and compose in many different genres. Escovedo may be the most brilliant musician you've never heard of, and that should change---and soon! Whether it's Stonesy/Faces-y "booze-rock" ("Guilty"), or touching, Gram Parsons-style country-folk ("California Blues"), he can do it all! Buy this record; play it constantly; go see him perform in a city near you; dig the hell out of his sound---you'll be damn glad ya did!
Bourbonitis Blues Poster
When No Depression magazine declared Alejandro Escovedo "The Artist of the Decade," the decision must have baffled everyone except the handful of people who had actually listened to his records. On his three studio albums and 1998's triumphant live album, he blended violin, cello, and buzz-saw guitar to fashion an utterly distinctive chamber-punk sound. He needed such a sound to accommodate songs about the stillness and terror of those early morning hours when you can't hide from the "what's it all for?" questions. Bourbonitis Blues isn't as epochal as its predecessors because it has been cobbled together from three different sessions and offers only three new originals. But Escovedo's one-of-a-kind arrangements are as haunting as ever; his remakes of songs by Lou Reed, John Cale, Gun Club, Jimmie Rodgers, and Ian Hunter are revealing, and the three new numbers are very good indeed. Contributions are made by past and current members of the Mekons, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Jody Grind, and dB's. --Geoffrey HimesBourbonitis Blues was recorded straight up, no chaser, (in Chicago, Austin, and Chapel Hill) in down home style -- this is Alejandro and his "classical glam" Orchestra at their finest: off the cuff, loose and tight, and reflective of their incredible live shows. The covers range from the achingly languid "Pale Blue Eyes", featuring Kelly Hogan (ex-Jody Grind, ex-Rock*A*Teens) on vocals, to the chugging cover of Jimmie Rodgers' "California Blues", with Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) guesting on guitar and vocals, to the spooked up version of the Gun Club's "Sex Beat" (featuring Trailer Bride's Melissa Swingle)
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