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b'Renowned songwriter, singer, true believer, Alejandro Escovedo released Burn Something Beautiful on October 28th, 2016 via Fantasy Records. The new album, Escovedo\\u2019s first solo endeavor since 2012\\u2019s highly acclaimed Big Station, is in actuality, a highly collaborative affair. Teaming with Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5) to co-write the album\\u2019s songs, Escovedo also enlisted the pair to act as the project\\u2019s producers. At once a celebration of the rock and roll life, a contemplation on mortality, and the healing power of love, Burn Something Beautiful connects repeatedly with Escovedo\\u2019s soulful heart and voice at its core. Recorded at Portland\\u2019s Type Foundry studio, cwith the help of an esteemed group of musicians .They include guitarist Kurt Bloch (The Fastbacks), drummer John Moen (The Decemberists), vocalists Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney) and Kelly Hogan (Neko Case, The Flat Fie) as well as saxophonist Steve Berlin (Los Lobos). In a trailblazing career that began with The Nuns, San Francisco\\u2019s famed punk innovators, to the Austin-based-based alt-country rock pioneers, Rank & File, to Texas bred darlings, True Believers, through countless all-star collaborations and tribute album appearances and finally a series of beloved solo albums beginning with 1992\\u2019s acclaimed Gravity, Escovedo has earned a surplus of distinctions: No Depression magazine\\u2019s Artist of the Decade Award in 1998 and the Americana Music Association\\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing in 2006, just to name two. \\u201cYou just do your good work, and people care,\\u201d Alejandro says. \\u201cI always believed, when I was a kid, that if you worked hard, you would find fulfillment. I think I got a lot of that from my father and my brothers. A working musician is all I ever wanted to be. Hard work, stay true to what you want to do, and then eventually someone would notice for that very reason.\\u201d'