Escovedo, Alejandro

2011-12 Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 14
By Kevin Curtin, Austin Chronicle at http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2012-03-16/2011-12-austin-music-awards-liveshots/

Austin Music Awards veteran Alejandro Escovedo closed the show with a slew of guests including Amy Cook, Rosie Flores, Dan Dyer, and Garland Jeffreys, as well as the Gun Club's Kid Congo Powers for a powerful version of "Sex Beat," and preeminent Texas troubadour Joe Ely, who hammered out a gritty version of "The Highway Is My Home" before asking, "Is there a guitar player in the house? We need one more guitar player!"
Out strode Bruce Springsteen to play lead on a cover of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Midnight Train" and sing along to Escovedo's "Always a Friend."
Before ending with a Jeffreys-led version of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden," Escovedo, Springsteen, and Ely traded lines on the folk standard "Goin' Down This Old Dusty Road (Don't Want To Be Treated This Old Way)." When they sang about "going where the weather suits my clothes," everyone was thinking of the same place: a magnetic town in Central Texas where music is king and life is good.