Guilty Was His Name: Alejandro Escovedo's "With These Hands" Gets Run Out Groove Reissue

Guilty Was His Name: Alejandro Escovedo’s “With These Hands” Gets Run Out Groove Reissue

August 12, 2019 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

The fans have spoken! Alejandro Escovedo’s With These Hands has been selected as the next Run Out Groove limited edition vinyl pressing.

Originally released in 1996, With These Hands was Escovedo’s debut on the Rykodisc label. The Mexican-American rocker hailed from one of music’s most famous families, counting Pete and Coke Escovedo as his brothers, and Pete’s daughter Sheila E. as his niece. His brother Mario fronted the band The Dragons, and brother Javier was a member of The Zeros. Alejandro’s style developed in the direction of alternative roots-rock, to which he brought authenticity, grit, and passion. With These Hands found him joined by Sheila E., Charlie Sexton, and Stephen Bruton, as well as Willie Nelson and Jennifer Warnes for one of his strongest sets of songs ever. ROG’s reissue will mark its first appearance on vinyl; the bonus track “Can’t Take It” has been added. It will be pressed on two 180-gram LPs at RTI, and will be housed in a gatefold, tip-on jacket with insert. As usual for ROG releases, it will be limited and numbered based on pre-orders, so it’s important to get your orders in now.

And with the announcement of a new ROG release comes another round of voting! Make your decision now as to which of these three titles you would like to see get the lavish ROG treatment:

Morphine, Good: Deluxe Edition – ROG will reissue and expand Morphine’s debut album with previously unreleased bonus tracks, remastering everything from the original source.

Less Than Jake, Anthem – The ska-punk band’s 2003 album will come to the format for the first time in an edition pressed on multi-colored 180-gram vinyl.

Ritchie Valens, Ritchie – ROG will remaster and expand the late rock-and-roller’s 1959 posthumous Del-Fi LP.

You can peruse the track listing for With These Hands below, and pre-order at the link provided! It’s due to ship on December 13.

Alejandro Escovedo, With These Hands (Rykodisc RCD 10343, 1996 – reissued Run Out Groove, 2019)

Side One

Put You Down
Slip
Crooked Frame

Side Two

Pissed Off 2 A.M.
Nickel and a Spoon (with Willie Nelson)
Little Bottles

Side Three

Sometimes
Guilty Was His Name (with Jennifer Warnes)
Tired Skin

Side Four

With These Hands
Tugboat (for Sterling Morrison)
Can’t Take It (Bonus Track)

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.