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Something New For Me
Pros
Rich, beautiful music.
Cons
none
Recommended it?
Yes
I have always felt different about a musician's product after seeing him live, so my opinion of Escovedo's music might be influenced by one of the best shows I've ever attended.
Escovedo's music seems to bare his soul with every strum of his guitar and every wail of his voice. His music is full of spirit. Most of the songs on this album are ones he also played when I saw him live.
The genre is folk with some songs leaning toward rock. Also like the live set I saw, much of the album is performed by a combination of Escovedo's voice and guitar, a second guitar, a cello, and drums. The guitar, cello, and his voice create an intoxicating sound that is really moving.
While listening to the CD again to write this review, I kept finding myself having to scan back and listen to a song again because the previous song had stirred me so deeply into thought that my attention strayed from the music. That is one of the highest compliments I can give a piece of music.
The live set I saw was performed in a format that Escovedo says is his preferred - acoustic, for a very small audience. It was a new type of experience for me. Every once in a while I have been in a coffee house with someone anonymous playing, but this was held in a small room in the back of Flipnotics coffee house in Austin, Texas. The room held maybe 40 people and the only bad thing during the show was when my pager's alarm went off unexpectedly while he was setting up his next song. That that was an interruption tells you how intimate it was.
I have not listened to much folk music in my life so I can't give you any comparisons in style or similarity to Escovedo's music, but this CD is definitely something you should check out.
To me, it is soul music.
Escovedo's music seems to bare his soul with every strum of his guitar and every wail of his voice. His music is full of spirit. Most of the songs on this album are ones he also played when I saw him live.
The genre is folk with some songs leaning toward rock. Also like the live set I saw, much of the album is performed by a combination of Escovedo's voice and guitar, a second guitar, a cello, and drums. The guitar, cello, and his voice create an intoxicating sound that is really moving.
While listening to the CD again to write this review, I kept finding myself having to scan back and listen to a song again because the previous song had stirred me so deeply into thought that my attention strayed from the music. That is one of the highest compliments I can give a piece of music.
The live set I saw was performed in a format that Escovedo says is his preferred - acoustic, for a very small audience. It was a new type of experience for me. Every once in a while I have been in a coffee house with someone anonymous playing, but this was held in a small room in the back of Flipnotics coffee house in Austin, Texas. The room held maybe 40 people and the only bad thing during the show was when my pager's alarm went off unexpectedly while he was setting up his next song. That that was an interruption tells you how intimate it was.
I have not listened to much folk music in my life so I can't give you any comparisons in style or similarity to Escovedo's music, but this CD is definitely something you should check out.
To me, it is soul music.
