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Alejandro Escovedo
Season 9
Episode 16
Alejandro Escovedo is a Mexican-American rock musician with Texas roots. His decades long career includes performing in the punk rock group The Nuns, and alternative country bands Rank and File and The True Believers. He has collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Los Lobos, Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey, and Los Texmaniacs. No Depression magazine declared him the Artist of the Decade.
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