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More Miles for your Money,
February 23, 2012 Robert Taylor (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: True Believer: Best of Alejandro Escovedo (Audio CD)
A compilation with more than 2 hours of music under the guise of a "best of" does not always represent the best value if the selection is ill- considered or poorly programmed. This is neither. I've always been in two minds about Alejandro Escovedo, at times thinking that his music matches the real life poignancy and lack of pretension of my other songwriter hero, Townes Van Zandt, at other times his music failing to move me.
Listening again to this selection, which I picked up recently in Sydney, I have no idea why my ambivalence prevailed for so long. His canon is one of the most consistently brilliant of the alt country genre. There is a hint in the second disc of my predicament though. When he rocks out, he is a different musician. Not necessarily an inferior or better one, just one that could be categorized entirely differently. I adore his balladry. These songs (mostly on the first disc) are minted first class. The live version of "last to know" In it's extended play...Read more
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