{"id":1979372,"date":"2025-08-25T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1979372"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:39:21","slug":"it-wasnt-always-fun-but-it-was-always-creative-on-his-latest-album-echo-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/it-wasnt-always-fun-but-it-was-always-creative-on-his-latest-album-echo-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t always fun, but it was always creative&#8221; on his latest album Echo Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Opening for the <b>Sex Pistols<\/b> at their last show, hanging out with <b>John Cale<\/b> in the late 70s, playing in several notable bands, and still recording at 74, <b>Alejandro Escovedo<\/b> is a walking encyclopedia of rock and roll history. His latest album called <b><i>Echo Dancing<\/i><\/b> reinterprets songs from all of his eras as a musician from the 70s to present day. It was a joyful process but also painful at times as he revisited some songs born out of trauma. We talked about his history, the making of this record, how he&#8217;s doing now, and his upcoming show at <b>Headliners Music Hall<\/b> on <b>September 5<\/b>. Below is a reinterpretation of his song <b>&#8220;Castanets&#8221;<\/b> which originally appeared on <b><i>A Man Under The Influence<\/i><\/b> from 2001 plus the original. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '369188845009402',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.lpm.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening for the Sex Pistols at their last show, hanging out with John Cale in the late 70s, playing in several notable bands, and still recording at 74, Alejandro Escovedo is a walking encyclopedia of rock and roll history. His latest album called Echo Dancing reinterprets songs from all of his eras as a musician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/It-wasnt-always-fun-but-it-was-always-creative-on.com2F0c2Fbb2F9ddd584b4d879f929c4f2914582d2Falejand.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}