So, if you’re like me, at least once while listening to Whiskeytown’s “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart,” about 2 minutes in you’ve said to yourself, “Hey, I didn’t know that Tom Petty and Elvis Costello had a baby and raised it on Springsteen and…wait….that’s……not possible. Then who is that singing?” Anyway, it took me a long time to finally decide to actually figure it out, but I did, and now I will pass that gem of information along to you. His is name is Alejandro Escovedo. I had never heard of him but I came to understand that he has quite the musical history. Most importantly though, his music is great, and beautiful and transparent in the best way. I picked up his record “Gravity” which is great, and I’m by no means an expert on his music, I recommend you check him out and I look forward to getting into more of of his stuff soon.
The clip above is of him playing an encore at a show in Paris, and as a bonus, the song happens to be my very favorite Velvet Underground jam as well. Enjoy!
DK
