With the year just about half way over I can safely say that this album is one of the best of the year so far. Escovedo writes of his personal life but can translate it so the listener can relate to it.
A few years back Escovedo was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. This album is a look back at the life he's lived and the music he's made. The songs talk about his days back in the punk group the Nuns to his time in the Americana group Rank n File with Chip and Tony Kinman. The songs range from pop to strings to garage sound.
The album opens with the most pop song on the album "Always A Friend." This song belongs on the radio and puts to shame most of what is being played today. This album is what real rock and roll is about. In the final song Escovedo talks about what this music has meant to him all his life: "Close your eyes and you can hear/The music in the wind/Out on the pier/That's the Ike and Tina Soul Revue/I don't know what this means to you/But it was everything to me."
In today's world, where so much of the music that comes out is created in the studio by some Mastermind with machines that could make me sound good and that has his eye towards the bottom line it's nice to see music that is made from the heart and soul.
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