Gravity (Alejandro Escovedo album) explained

Gravity
Type:	Album
Artist:	Alejandro Escovedo
Cover:	AEgravity.jpg
Released:	1992
Studio:	The Hit Shack, Austin, Texas
Genre:	Alt-country, heartland rock
Length:	50:39
Label:	Watermelon
Producer:	Turner Stephen Bruton
Next Title:	Thirteen Years
Next Year:	1994

Gravity is the début album of Alejandro Escovedo, released in 1992.^{[1] [2]} Heinz Geissler and John Kunz were the executive producers.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "In the clarified artistic vision of a mature musician with a broken heart, a spiritual sense of his place in the world and a rich, resonant voice, Escovedo devised an electric folk idiom ... powerfully suited to the poetic hair shirt he donned."^[3]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Alejandro Escovedo

1. "Paradise" – 4:16
2. "Broken Bottle" – 3:53
3. "One More Time" – 3:46
4. "By Eleven" – 4:03
5. "Bury Me" – 5:24
6. "Five Hearts Breaking" – 4:10
7. "Oxford" – 4:25
8. "Last to Know" – 5:00
9. "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" – 4:24
10. "Pyramid of Tears" – 4:00
11. "Gravity/Falling Down Again" – 7:18

Personnel

• Alejandro Escovedo - vocal, acoustic guitar
• Turner Stephen Bruton - slide guitar, electric slide guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocal harmony
• Chris Knight - keyboards
• Barry "Frosty" Smith - drums, percussion
• Dennis Kenmore - drums
• Rick Poss - electric twelve-string guitar
• Terry Wilson - bass
• John Hagen - cello
• Marty Muse - pedal steel guitar
• Thierry Le Coz - electric guitar
• Bill Ginn - piano
• Lou Ann Barton - vocal harmony
• Bill Averbach - trumpet on "Bury Me"
• J. D. Foster - vocal harmony
• Cid Sanchez - lead guitar on "Oxford"
• Spencer Starnes - double bass on "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
• Bruce & Charlie Robison - vocal harmonies
• Dennis Kenmore, Jay Hudson, T.S. Bruton, Chris Knight, "Big Wave" Dave McNair, J.D. Foster, Alejandro Escovedo - The Cappuccino Choir
• Maya Escovedo, Megan Ewing - The Screaming Me Me's

Technical

• Heinz Geissler, John T. Kunz - executive producer
• Kathy Marcus - art direction, design
• Dana Lee Smith - illustration

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alejandro Escovedo Has a Lot to Sing About: He's Still Alive. Jon. Pareles. April 30, 2006. NYTimes.com.
2. Web site: Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity / Thirteen Years – No Depression. www.nodepression.com.
3. Web site: Alejandro Escovedo . Trouser Press . 31 July 2020.