Street Songs of Love | 
| Artist: Alejandro Escovedo
Label: Fantasy
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 713
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 888072319226
UPC: 888072319226
EAN: 0888072319226
ASIN: B003FBNIV4
Release Date: June 29, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Anchor | | • | Silver Cloud | | • | This Bed Is Getting Crowded | | • | Street Songs | | • | Down In The Bowery | | • | Tender Heart | | • | After The Meteor Showers | | • | Tula | | • | Undesired | | • | Fall Apart With You | | • | Shelling Rain | | • | Faith | | • | Fort Worth Blue |
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Product Description
From his days in the now legendary punk/alt-country outfits The Nuns, Rank and File and his own True Believers, to his glowingly received solo gems including 2008's Real Animal, Escovedo has built a rapturous underground following among fans, songwriting peers and critics alike. His highly anticipated Fantasy Records debut, Street Songs of Love, is a 13-track celebration of survival, liberation and ultimate salvation.
Album Description
2010 release from the veteran singer/songwriter. From his days in the now legendary Punk/Alt-Country outfits The Nuns, Rank and File and his own True Believers, to his glowingly received solo gems including 2008's Real Animal, Escovedo has built a rapturous underground following among fans, songwriting peers and critics alike. His highly anticipated Fantasy Records debut, Street Songs of Love, is a 13-track celebration of survival, liberation and ultimate salvation.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Hard Rocking, High Quality July 3, 2010
Old T.B. (Cheyenne, Wy USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Alejandro Escovedo's Street Songs of Love is a driving, surging tour-de-force of unrelenting rock and roll power. He and his band, the three piece Sensitive Boys, bring the house down with a unique mix of garage band, new wave, and roots rock blended together. Ian Hunter provides guest vocals on Down in the Bowery, and he sounds great, maybe the most vital 71-year-old on the planet. Bruce Springsteen shares vocals on the song Faith. But, the triumph is Escovedo's as he brings songs, many co-written with Chuck Prophet, of the highest quality; there's no filler, musically or lyrically. Most highly recommended.
Alejandro keeps rolling along July 19, 2010
Carly Errebo (kansas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alejandro Escovedo's 10th studio album "Street Songs Of Love" continues his winning streak since the "Boxing Mirror" in 2006. Here is a 59 year-old singer songwriter that doesn't seem to be losing any steam since his near death experience with hepatitis C in the mid 2000's.
Highlights on this set are:
Anchor
Silvercloud
This Bed Is Getting Crowded
A great triple play to start of the CD.
The Funky title track.
The duet with Ian Hunter "Down in the Bowery"
The rocking of a "Tender Heart"
The melancholy "After The Meteor Showers"
"Tula" sounds like early Santana.
The mid-tempoed "Undesired".
"Fall Apart With You" - "She cries when she here's Johnny Cash".
"Faith" great song done with Bruce Springsteen on vocals with Alejandro. "Ya gotta have faith!"
"Fort Worth Blue" an instrumental for his late friend and writing partner in the early 90's Stephen Bruton.
P.S. Another great production by Tony Visconti and the great backing band "The Sensitive Boys": David Pulkingham guitar and Keys, Bobby Daniel Bass and Hector Munoz Drums. One of the top 5 CD's so far in 2010.
Masterpiece August 7, 2010
Mindif
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the opening notes straight through to the end this is a gem. Masterful songwriting delivered with an incredible range of emotion, musicianship and energy. It runs the gamut from heartbreaking to biting: Anchor, Fall Apart With You, Down On The Bowery, Silver Cloud, This Bed is Getting Crowded are brilliant songs on a classic album. Anyone who appreciates a great work of art should own this. Since it came out I've been listening non-stop along with Peter Wolf's Midnight Souvenir's another treasure.
Hooked before the 3rd song's even done. July 3, 2010
B. Lockhart (Davis, CA USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Alejandro and the Sensitive Boys indeed. Barely 3 songs in and it's obvious these guys are just rocking and rolling like there's no tomorrow. I'm surprised I'm the first fan/reviewer to laud this great American artist in one of his finest hours on his latest. Thank you, Alejandro and the Sensitive Boys. I'm now listening to track 4, Street Songs, and it's clear you have no cure for your glorious ode to the rocking pneumonia. The man is an American master. Buy it, download it, and see him live. Pay the man his due. You won't regret it. As he's singing right now on track 5, Down in the Bowery, with Ian Hunter of Moot the Hoople, I'd buy you a smile....He's got a tender heart. You want his tender heart! As the AMG reviewer put it, it's melt-your-face garage band intense! Every track is bound to be just as amazing. Slam dunk, Don Alejandro!
Outstanding July 25, 2010
bob parker (Homewood, AL USA)
Escovedo delivers, again. Everyone should be aware of Escovedo. I've been lucky enough to see him perform numerous times, and look forward to my next opportunity. Don't fail to check out Chuck Prophet, co-writer on this CD, if you're not familiar with him.
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