Alejandro Escovedo.com Rolling Stone: Alejandro Escovedo Plays Zankel Hall

A few months ago our friend and inspiration, Alejandro, played Carnegie Hall in New York. It’s about time. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, go through hell, and practice.

A while ago we confirmed we’ll be working on a video for Alejandro’s song Dear Head on the Wall. I’ve been beating my head against a wall ever since trying to come up with a concept for this video. It should be said, I’m not a real big fan of the performance video. It’s been done and done and done. Well, one of the most pure things I can think of is watching Al perform. So how can one not bring this purity to a video. We’ll, this song isn’t all about Al (sorry Al).

Al co-wrote this song with his wife, Kim. So there’s a lot of her in the song. This collaboration makes the challenge a little greater, but it also loosens things a bit.

Al’s input on concept was “do your thing, man.”

Uh, thanks.