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Alejandro Escovedo: Street Songs of Love (Concord)
From the breathless pace he sets on this hard rocking album you'd never know that Escovedo out of Texas (formerly of Rank and File, a fellow traveller with John Dee Graham, co-writer with Chuck Prophet and now managed by Springsteen's Jon Landau) nearly died a few years ago.
Such is the high regard he is held in by his peers that for a...
> music/3324/alejandro-escovedo-street-songs-of-love-concord/
John Cale: Mercenaries (1980)
Born of its political era and John Cale's peculiarly damaged consciousness at the time, this menacing live recording captures an embittered spirit, a rare rage and a grim humour.
As Mikal Gilmore noted in Rolling Stone at the time, the Sabotage/Live album this comes from is "without apology, and more importantly, without ideology,...
> fromthevaults/3155/john-cale-mercenaries-1980/
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND; VANISHING POINT (Chrome Dreams/Triton DVD)
Although this 90 minute film of the career of the Velvet Underground leaps in when Lou Reed met John Cale --as if nothing of consequence had happened in each of their lives prior to that -- what follows is an interesting (if much canvassed) doco about a band which changed the face of contemporary music.
This chronological account is...
> film/2904/the-velvet-underground-vanishing-point-chrome-dreams-triton-dvd/
LOU REED AND PATTI SMITH IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Patent pending
When those archetypal New Yorkers Lou Reed and Patti Smith both released albums in the early days of 2000, it allowed anyone still interested in their careers the chance to consider their relative positions as they entered a new decade -- in fact a new century -- about 25 years (and more) on from their career defining best work.
Neither of...
> absoluteelsewhere/2770/lou-reed-and-patti-smith-in-the-21st-century-patent-pending/
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