Alejandro Escovedo

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alejandro Escovedo, one of the most critically acclaimed artists in contemporary music, joins Rhett to talk about his musical evolution, from his early days in punk band The Nuns to Austin-based rock band The True Believers, to the making of his new album, Echo Dancing. He tells Rhett about the creative process behind the song selection on the new record and the decision to revisit and reshape some of his earlier work. The two discuss the moment when Alejandro committed to being a songwriter, and he explains why each phase of life brings an opportunity to discover new ways to tell a story. Echo Dancing is available now. Follow Alejando Escovedo and @alejandro_escovedo Follow Rhett Miller and @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	Started up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got Wheels Off.
0:23.5	I'm really tickled about this episode of Wheels Off.
0:26.9	Alejandro Escobedo has been a hero of mine since I was, I don't know, 15 years old,
0:32.4	and I saw his band The True Believers play at the Arcadia Theater in Dallas, Texas.
0:37.9	I was in the front row and I was blown away.
0:42.2	I've watched his career evolve.
0:46.4	He's tried out all these different things, different bands,
0:49.1	just the list of bands that he's been in.
0:51.9	Let's see, the nuns, rank and file, true believers,
0:56.9	um, Buick McCain, um, and then all the, obviously all of his incredible solo albums.
1:06.2	He's just, he's a really beautiful man with a good heart.
1:13.3	And his songwriting is unparalleled.
1:17.4	So to get to interview him for wheels off and to get to share the interview with you guys,
1:22.6	I feel like is, that's why I'm doing this.
1:25.9	And I'm really excited that you guys are going to get to hear this.
1:28.6	Please know that there's a little bit of, you know, sound quality issues, you know.
1:35.5	I think he was in his manager's office.
1:37.7	And a few times it sounds like somebody turns on a vacuum cleaner.
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