Escovedo's rise has been a gradual, steady incline rather than a quick
ascendance. But it has deepened and burnished his music making it
closer to the bone, where it begins to break, while deepening his
insight and his ability to find that insight in performance. His
tireless touring and dogged determination to place one album after
another has taken him through many musical scenes. Remaining the same
persona within each, he is an artist who doesn’t settle for the easy
way out. It is a journey that has taken him from Texas to California
to New York and back again to Texas, encompassing a breadth of music
as varied as the many bands he was part of before embarking on a solo
career. In the 1970s, he surfaced on San Francisco’s no-holds-barred
punk scene centered around the Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach as a
guitarist in The Nuns. As a member of the band Rank and File he helped
unite the disparate worlds of punk and country in the 1980s. After he
moved back to Austin, the True Believers combined all manner of
Americana music in a harbinger of what was to come in Alejandro’s
solo career which begun in 1992 with the album Gravity. Joe Ely is an
American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on
honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex, and rock and roll. Ely has had a
genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle
Tupelo, Los Super Seven, The Chieftains, and James McMurtry in
addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic
tours with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark. Presented by
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