Finally, we’re proud to present in Kilkenny No Depression magazine’s Artist of the Nineties. Starting off as ground zero punk rock dude with the Nuns, cowpunk progenitor in Rank and File, guitar-rawker in the True Believers and Buick MacKane; he’s the genuine Real Deal. He is also a consummate storyteller who is held in the highest esteem by his peers, he’s been described as a poet of the ordinary event. “Musically, Alejandro Escovedo is in his own genre,” notes David Fricke in Rolling Stone. (US)