Alejandro Escovedo was just beginning a fall 2014 tour when he started having what he calls “a kind of brain seizure.” “They happened a few times, and one of them happened just before a gig in Portland,” Escovedo says.
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Shows of the Week: A ‘Fam-o-Lee’ Tradition From One of Texas’s Best
When he realized that “Merry Christmas From the Family,” his 1994 tune about a motley clan that gets along well enough during the holidays so long as the margaritas and homemade eggnog keep flowing, was well on its way to becoming the kind of song that can define an artist’s career – at the expense of anything else they’ve written, even – Keen … (more)