June 21, 2010 3:06 PM ET
Singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo recently stopped by the Rolling Stone studio with guitarist David Pulkingham to showcase a pair of new songs from his June 29th album Street Songs of Love, "Faith" and opening track "Anchor." Street Songs of Love comes two years after Escovedo's "purely autobiographical" album Real Animal, which like its predecessor The Boxing Mirror examined the Texas rocker's near-death experience and long recovery from hepatitis-C. After the pair of personal albums, Escovedo admits to RS that he was "pretty sick of myself" when he began working on Street Songs and began writing "songs about nothing."
However, "Life takes its course and led me to a direction of writing an album full of love songs, or songs about love," Escovedo tells RS, admitting that the subject has always been a mystery to him. On Street Songs, Escovedo is recharged and refocused after his tumultuous past few years. "Because of my health situation, it was pretty scary, there was two years where I couldn't work. Now, I'm more driven about the songs, about the band... I embraced life in a way I haven't before," Escovedo says.
To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here
-
-
-
-
POLITICS No Price Big Banks Can't Fix
Picks From Around the Web
blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter
X
We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.
Most Popular
