More Miles Than Money - Live, 1994-1996
Alejandro Escovedo
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Last to Know | Alejandro Escovedo | 5:04 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Slip | Alejandro Escovedo | 4:49 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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P****d Off 2AM | Alejandro Escovedo | 5:19 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Sway | Alejandro Escovedo | 4:45 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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One More Time | Alejandro Escovedo | 4:53 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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She Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Alejandro Escovedo | 6:06 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Broken Bottle | Alejandro Escovedo | 4:37 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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I Wanna Be Your Dog | Alejandro Escovedo | 7:26 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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She Towers Above | Alejandro Escovedo | 5:15 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Five Hearts Breaking | Alejandro Escovedo | 5:57 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Gravity / Falling Down Again / Street Hassle | Alejandro Escovedo | 12:26 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
Drawn mostly from Alejandro Escovedo’s first two solo albums, More Miles Than Money presents several of Escovedo’s best-known songs in versions far starker and rawer than their studio counterparts. This is an album that reflects the atmosphere of the road, both literal and metaphysical. “Last To Know” and “Broken Bottle” are not quite angry or urgent — they are simply tinted with the wear and tear of all those miles logged. The blowback of the touring life is made more explicit in “Pissed Off 2AM,” which conveys just how lonely and alienating the late nights of a working musician can be. The two covers fit the mood perfectly: The Stones’ “Sway” encapsulates all the hoarse world-weariness of the touring lifestyle, while The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” becomes a channel for all of the band’s pent-up frustrations and grievances. In this way, More Miles Than Money isn’t just a document of an Escovedo live performance, but a reflection of the author’s experiences as someone who has accepted the toll of being in touring rock bands since his teen years.
Customer Reviews
Cry in your beer, indeed
They say happy songs sell records while sad songs sell beer. If so, a lot of bartenders owe their tips to Alejandro Escovedo. Covering the more somber elements of his live act, this disk does show what a mesmerizing vocalist and performer he is, with many of these tunes easily outshining their studio originals. That said, it's kind of a lot of gloom for one album, and the skimpy production does a disservice to the album's one rocker, the Stooges classic "I Wanna Be Your Dog." The version on this record barely hints at how incendiary and uncontrolled this number is in the hands of Escovedo and his band, making this album a good, but not definitive, portrait of Escovedo’s live show.
Deserving of Six Stars
This album, along with Whiskeytown's Stranger's Almanac, ranks as one of the most important albums of a certain period of my life. I can't say enough good things about it. The album encompasses several genres, ranging from hard-core punk to country, and does so effortlessly. The musicians are superb, their passion for their music undeniable and incendiary, particularly in their sensationally good cover of I Wanna Be Your Dog. Their version of Sway makes me wonder why the Stones didn't focus more on country, since Jagger and Richards obviously had a flair for writing great country songs. The pick of the album, in my estimation, is She Towers Above, a song which is almost unbearably intense. This is a magnificent piece of work, all the more so because it is a live recording, or series of them. Incredible, not to be missed.
Biography
Born: 1951 in San Antonio, TX
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Alejandro Escovedo
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Castanets | A Man Under the Influence | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Anchor | Street Songs of Love (Bonus Track Version) | 3:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Faith | Street Songs of Love (Bonus Track Version) | 3:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Was Drunk | Bourbonitis Blues | 4:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Down In the Bowery | Street Songs of Love (Bonus Track Version) | 4:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Always a Friend | Real Animal | 3:35 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rhapsody | A Man Under the Influence | 4:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Rosalie | A Man Under the Influence | 3:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Velvet Guitar | A Man Under the Influence | 4:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wedding Day | A Man Under the Influence | 3:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- Genres: Alternative, Music, Country, Honky Tonk, Rock, Roots Rock, Alternative Country, Americana
- Released: Feb 24, 1998
- ℗ 1998 Bloodshot Records
