From his website:
NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ — REAL ANIMAL Alejandro Escovedo’s 9th solo album and follow-up to 2006’s critically-acclaimed THE BOXING MIRROR will be released in-stores and online June 24, 2008. A limited edition double vinyl release featuring two bonus tracks: “In Love Again” and a cover of the Stooges “I Got a Right” will be released on June 10, 2008. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T.Rex, Thin Lizzy), REAL ANIMAL is a collective journey through Escovedo’s various musical incarnations from punk rock to string quintets and is as introspective as it is retrospective. “The inspiration for this record really is my life in music and the characters that I have known in and throughout that life. It’s also about how music helped me survive that life,” Escovedo said. Recorded at Saint Claire Studios in Lexington, KY, REAL ANIMAL features a band of frequent collaborators, including David Pulkingham (guitar), Josh Gravelin (bass), Hector Munoz (drums), Susan Voelz (violin), Brian Standefer (cello) and Chuck Prophet (guitar).The 13 original tracks on REAL ANIMAL unravel Escovedo’s musical autobiography while presenting him as a masterful American musician, whose palette encompasses eloquent string quintets and shattering blasts of punk rock. From his early days in the punk scene of San Francisco (”Nuns Song”) to chaotic times living at the Chelsea Hotel alongside Sid & Nancy (”Chelsea Hotel ‘78″) through his pioneering alt-country days with Rank & File (”Chip n’ Tony”), REAL ANIMAL weaves a vivid tale of music as well as characters met, played with and lost along the way (”Sister Lost Soul” and “Sensitive Boys”). The punk-infused track “Real as an Animal” is an homage to Stooges’ front man Iggy Pop — one of the many influential artists that hit home with Escovedo — while “Golden Bear”, a song named after a local music club in Huntington Beach, CA where Escovedo spent his teen years, has a haunting and melodic reference to his near-death battle with Hepatitis-C.
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