◇ image via WikipediaAlejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Sterling Morrison, Skip Spence, Doug Sahm, Lou Reed and David Bowie. Those roots explain a lot about how Alejandro Escovedo arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Bottle Rockets, Buddy Miller, Willie Nile, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Jason Isbell, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Carrie Rodriguez, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, John Cale and Lucinda Williams, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Alejandro Escovedo, reaching back through Sterling Morrison and forward to Carrie Rodriguez. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Alejandro Escovedo connections
Alejandro Escovedo grew out of Sterling Morrison, Skip Spence, Doug Sahm and Lou Reed, shares an orbit with The Bottle Rockets, Buddy Miller, Willie Nile and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, went on to shape Carrie Rodriguez, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown and John Cale. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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