On Wednesday, October 8th at 10am, Sex 14’s speaks with singer-songwriter, Alejandro Escovedo, before he arrives in SF to play The Chapel on October 14th.
Between adventurous solo albums, continuing collaborations with other musicians and an ever-growing sense of boundary-pushing, Alejandro Escovedo has created his own definition of what a modern rock artist can accomplish.
With his latest album, Echo Dancing, Alejandro Escovedo has taken a road rarely traveled, which is totally in keeping with how he has lived his life in music. The album is an experiment in how to use the past to shape the future.
By recording completely new and repurposed versions of songs from his past, Escovedo actually gets a chance to rewrite his own history. It’s also an idea that pushes growth into the present, and asks an artist to see themselves anew.
“I always feel that a well-written song can withstand a lot of abuse,” Escovedo says. It is an area of creativity that the man has always honored. “Turning a past song inside out leads to discovery of new ideas you might not have understood about the song,” he says. “Even lyrical refurbishing has proven helpful and effective. It’s like interpreting your own work anew. The songs never seem to be complete. They are always evolving.”
While it does seem Escovedo has his own category of accomplishments, to now bring together these songs he has previously recorded and inject such exciting new and different life into them is a complete exoneration of his belief in the future.
